/compounds/ - The Compounds of Harmony

>>3681

>If you don't like it, use Harmony to ruin it.

@ 2.5% taxes it costs 25 Harmony to maintain a stock of 1k Harmony per tick. Which at 6k, the amount needed to change values by one point, would require 150 Harmony per turn to keep 6k Harmony stable.

Which at T6 requires 36 Happiness per tick to maintain the 2.5% tax rate anyways.

And enough Joy to keep Alliance Sat stable relative to the number of players involved.

I could align four to six T6 players in different large alliances, stockpile Harmony in different accounts and organize a single group transfer with the intent to shift one cost by one degree.

But that sounds a whole lot like herding ferrets. It takes even more energy to actively ruin the game than to just let it roll on.

OK, so my guess is that you think that I have multiple accounts because there are 3 of us living in the same house playing the game. My son and daughter are sad that they've been banned. I'm kinda sad too.

>>4240

Ooh! I've never heard a "Son and Daughter" one before!

Quick, what do the rules say about this topic?

"If you say that it's your brother or your cousin or whoever sharing the computer or home network, the admin will not believe you."

And guess what? I don't!

Wow, and you wonder why you don't have enough players? You just banned 3.

*shrugs*

DictatorDuck, thanks for the week of fun.

Four fucking accounts made from your residential IP address: Temmeh, thedude32, simuloid, and SuzoStar. Don't even pretend.

I'm sorry that multiple people in one household enjoyed your game. I technically should be banned because I made Temmeh after suzostar because I made a crappy decision when I first started, but my dad and my bro are COMPLETELY clean. I swear I'm not lying.

>>4233

so why cant you make a new thread on /anon/?

>>4234

Please do, we need the people

We have some new people now.

Please don't fuck this up by basically forcing them out of the game.

Again.

>>4227

Well, yes and no.

It's clear that Myra is the biggest fish ingame right now.

But, the inflation tax still makes sure his further growth is slow, if at all possible. He still would have all this stuff, and quite possibly way more, you just couldn't see it.

In short, the tax mechanic still helps, it just doesn't keep him at low enough levels to be easy prey.

That said, in the past I _was_ advocating for mechanics that makes all this market storage nonsense not viable, but admin rejected my idea. Which still wouldn't change Myra's place at the top though, anyway.

Last night, we talked in chat about the current state of the game. We agreed on several things, including that conflict is important for both keeping interest in the game and to grow empires, especially those of new and/or small players. One part of it is that players with at least two or three nations have a larger power and resource base, and thus also can help others more easily. The obvious problem with this is the established power bases, and that war is more likely to result in the destruction of said smaller players if they participate. Followed by, worst case, ragequits.

Now, to incentivize said smaller players to actually go into war, I had an idea of "limited engagements". Wars that are limited in scale, but otherwise honest fighting, therefore (hopefully) being within the rules of giving away nations versus taking them by force.

First, to keep small players from getting mauled, these regulations can only be invoked if the defender agrees to it. No attacking newbs and claiming you can't be counterattacked.

As for the actual limits. There are two: number of troops, and time.

Once a declaration of such an engagement is issued, the offender's side has one week to send a total of 3000 units to the attacked player(s). Not per tick, not daily, in total.

The other side then also may counterattack with 3k units total, in the same time frame.

Third parties can try to capitalie on it by attacking either side (thereby opening themselves for retribution as well), but have to keep to the same limits, with the time limit beng he original one, regardless of when said third party gets into the fight.

A "side" of the war may be only one player, it may be more. Regardless, the troop limit counts for a whole side. Players from the same alliance are always on the same side (and no, just leaving for this doesn't count), but otherwise players may cooperate (or not) at will.

If three or more parties exist, each side can send their allotment of troops to each other. So you don't need to split.

>>4230

Go away Scarf. :P

These aren't game rules, to be enforced by admin. It's a chance for smaller nations to wage war without being nuked. You wanna just attack me? Go ahead.^^

>>4209

why would you leave an alliance after you started getting attacked? that sounds stupid. most likely got attacked right after leaving

It seems that Keymaster and I had the same idea independently.

I saw LeaTheFlameboy unaligned for at least a few days before his nation aged to 21. So I sent forces, as far as I can tell, the same tick Keymaster did. I had neglected to bounce them off another Saddle beforehand (though I tried, but did not know that going into stasis returned troops you were sending to defend), so Keymaster got there first. But still, it was an unaligned Saddle as far as I could see.

The wartick when it seems we both sent forces was after noon on the day when the nation turned 21. That same wartick, LeaTheFlameboy threw up a nominal defense force of 100 unarmed cavalry and went into stasis.

>>4197

You should have ponified the text.

Royal Guard instead of Navy Seals, the Changeling Hive instead of Al-Qaeda and Celestia's Armed Forces instead of the US.

I like it

>>4201

thanks fam

>>4201

>comic sans

What shit

Bumping for newfriends.

>>3780

TEST

Compounds yes, >CLOP no.

>>4193

/compounds/ is a board that's related to the browsergame >CLOP ( clop.us ).

It has been pretty quiet lately, though.

>>4135

typo in the trip

>>4135

This is annoying as hell...

Assuming you log in before the next war tick, you should be fine.

So, here's a little tool me and a friend made for calculating the cost of actions and it's effect on your stockpiles and per/tick incomes.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1z1JkHR70qmlpJRIHHNtXKyLV5V6PxG_dQdNQBEGmJMI/edit#gid=1377226801

Feel free to use it, and if you find any errors or have suggestions to improve it, just post em here.

>>4191

>HR70qmlpJRIHH

>mlp

>>4081

another war already? well good luck to you

>>4075

Omg, I just realized what's going on in the background wuahahaha

>>4081

Of course Bug attacked you, and since there was never any potential for your survival, with either diplomacy or force, rejoining was wholly nationbuilding.

Seriously, the game has a perfect unstable equilibrium. As soon as anyone gets even one nation, they become able to beat anyone, and therefore they will continue to do so. Myra attacks newbies constantly and they have no chance, so even complete newbies can't join and play at all. Which, since they never had a chance, is illegal on their part.

I've suggested NPCs in the past (though really, who cares what I think) but upon reflection I think the game is purer and more impactful without NPCs.

Right now, it's a game of life. Life doesn't hand you quests and reward you with loot for completing specified objectives. Life is neither benevolent nor cruel, but apathetic. Want meaning? Discover it yourself. Want something to do? Figure out what you want. That's life.

NPCs would introduce an artificiality into an otherwise relatively pure experience. They would make the game more fun, but would qualitatively change the experience.

The best solution would be to find a way to attract and keep more players.

>>4179

Dovesy plz

haha

dovesy a shit. Litterally.

>>4183

Do you mean figguratively?

>>4184

Yea. Ok.

Hahahah

Dovesy a shit. Figuratively.