Attacks vs defense are lopsided!

[Jeffcrosby]

Why is it that when I go to battle it is with another fairly evenly matched Industrial Age player yet when I am attacked it is by grossly overpowering global age player? Can this be balanced out to be more fair and more fun? I can’t get my oil reserves over 60 k because I’m constantly being pillaged by WW2 era armies. Thanks for rectifying this situation!

 

[pckrn]

when you get attacked, you get attacked by stronger players because weaker players will just skip your base to look for one weaker than they.

tips:

design your base so that it is strong against raiders but weak against full armies. this will get you a peace treaty everytime you are attacked, so you dont lose resources repeatedly

upgrade oil wells. lose a few thousand oil? upgraded oil wells can produce a few thousand in half a day

go to global age as soon as your army is full industrial. for about 2 weeks things will actually be more difficult, but soon after, you will enjoy better loot from your attacks and less loss from enemy attacks (because global refinery will only lose a maximum of 4k oil, but industrial refinery has no limit)

 

[Dvicious]

(because global refinery will only lose a maximum of 4k oil, but industrial refinery has no limit)

is this true? interesting. what are the limits if any on atomic and cwa refineries?

 

[pckrn]

atomic 5k, cwa 6k.

you can test this by attacking someone with like 8k oil, destroy the refinery and nothing else. you will have looted exactly as much as the limit allows, and rest of the oil is in the wells.

 

[SiuYin]

1. There are lots of EA player listed on your attack list, you should crash them as easy as you being crashed by Global Player
2. You are Industrial age player, but it dont mean your defense reached Industrial, how can you expect a Gunpowder Level defense able to stop Global?

 

[sinner]

I don’t know about the jumping to the next age. Seems to be a money grab to me. Problem I see is the amount that these Cold War agers Rip you apart with ease and there seems to be no percent taken off for them dipping down two fricken ages. Especially when they take the coveted Ntg’s

 

[Alexey]

Interesting... I thought 5000 oil was the maximum loot from refinery at any age. And 500k food and gold are maximum for mills and markets respectively. To the topic starter - put your TC to the edge of the forest, make a maze-type layout (it's the most effective layout agains raiders if your defenses are low). And yes, if you're not hard-playing - upgrade your oil wells to the maximum)

 

[yemen]

CWA hitting global do have a loot penalty - not for stuff taken from your farms / caravans / wells, but from your mills/markets/refineries. It is significant. And they can't steal your NTGs - when you see them in the replay log, those are won by 5 starring your base. Up to 2 for your nation, and a random third for having moctezuma finished. You don't lose any.

 

[yemen]

5k is the max until cold war. Then it goes to 6k. There is a % penalty for hitting down an age, I believe it is the same as the penalty you face for hitting down ages in war.