Loonies
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Sorry it’s a bit long.
We’ve all seen the horrors of war: sandbagging, long match times, and lopsided matches worth little glory or no chance of victory. The reasons for these have to do with BHGs “expert system” to coordinate wars, and frankly the “experts” behind the system just aren’t very good at playing their own game (sorry TinSoldier and Ash).
The solution to these problems is to bring the real experts (the players) into the process. Just as the horrors of WW1 led to the Geneva Convention for executing war, I would like to see a War Convention feature added to Planning Day for each world war.
The War Convention feature would allow leaders from the two sides to offer limitations on their side’s execution of the war in exchange for shifting the glory split toward their side. And they would be able to propose limits on the opposing team in exchange for shifting increased glory to the opposing team. In this way, the expert warmakers would have opportunity to remedy any failure in the game’s war coordinating system.
For example, say I am an alliance and I get matched up with an opponent that I can easily beat but it’s only worth +15 or -985 glory. It might be worth our while to make it a contest by limiting myself to 0SH in exchange for changing the stakes to +115 or -885 glory. I would gain the potential to win greater glory from a basically throwaway match and they would gain a better chance to win. Perhaps the opponent could counter propose a 200 glory shift for the same limitation. We could offer and propose additional limits that level the playing field. Between expert warmakers, limits could be negotiated that would make the glory an even split.
For the War Convention to work, BHG would have to make the game apply the limits to each side. If 0SH is agreed, then any SH donations would be ignored. The limits would have to be within a defined set, including the conventions for war most desired by the warring player community. Perhaps a collaborative BHG/player Geneva Council could work together to manage the set of conventions.
I think a War Convention that involves the expert players during the Planning Day of every war would add an exciting new dimension of negotiation and fair play to the world war feature that so far BHG has failed to consistently deliver.
We’ve all seen the horrors of war: sandbagging, long match times, and lopsided matches worth little glory or no chance of victory. The reasons for these have to do with BHGs “expert system” to coordinate wars, and frankly the “experts” behind the system just aren’t very good at playing their own game (sorry TinSoldier and Ash).
The solution to these problems is to bring the real experts (the players) into the process. Just as the horrors of WW1 led to the Geneva Convention for executing war, I would like to see a War Convention feature added to Planning Day for each world war.
The War Convention feature would allow leaders from the two sides to offer limitations on their side’s execution of the war in exchange for shifting the glory split toward their side. And they would be able to propose limits on the opposing team in exchange for shifting increased glory to the opposing team. In this way, the expert warmakers would have opportunity to remedy any failure in the game’s war coordinating system.
For example, say I am an alliance and I get matched up with an opponent that I can easily beat but it’s only worth +15 or -985 glory. It might be worth our while to make it a contest by limiting myself to 0SH in exchange for changing the stakes to +115 or -885 glory. I would gain the potential to win greater glory from a basically throwaway match and they would gain a better chance to win. Perhaps the opponent could counter propose a 200 glory shift for the same limitation. We could offer and propose additional limits that level the playing field. Between expert warmakers, limits could be negotiated that would make the glory an even split.
For the War Convention to work, BHG would have to make the game apply the limits to each side. If 0SH is agreed, then any SH donations would be ignored. The limits would have to be within a defined set, including the conventions for war most desired by the warring player community. Perhaps a collaborative BHG/player Geneva Council could work together to manage the set of conventions.
I think a War Convention that involves the expert players during the Planning Day of every war would add an exciting new dimension of negotiation and fair play to the world war feature that so far BHG has failed to consistently deliver.
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