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Flank attack ! 13 December 2005
2005-12-13
Update to take place at 2:00 PM
Flank attack is here. How flank attack works is (see below), say if ds1 is a ship spam, then as2 to as4 will do flank attacks because there is no ships blocking them. if ds1 have `cant defend`, then as1 will do a retal attack on as2. summary = we try to discourage players from ship spamming.
as1 ds1
as2
as3
as4
Note: as = attacking ships, ds = defending ships
Ships adjusted
-20% build cost to Marauder D class
+Build rate to Neutral f class, t.Ryu-jin, t.Maru, t.Sentoki, A.Miner M class (except M.Lakko), Collective R class
-1 Range to Runners, m.Hal
-5% Weapon to Light Frigate
-Upkeep & Cost for Terran p class
-Upkeep for c.Taurus
2005-12-11
After monitoring the Marauder rebalancing update, it seemed that there is a flaw in our balancing formula. Although on paper the formula looks correct we did not take into the account `ship loss` (SP). The more offensive the ship is, the higher SP rate, the more indirect cost it occurs. For example, if the SP rate is lower (defensive ships), it cost less to maintain a fleet at a particular Pr because the number of ships remaining after being attack is much higher compared to offensive ships with higher SP ratio. Since most Marauder ships are offensive there is a lot of indirect cost to maintain their ship are a particular Pr due to high SP. From our finding, we have adjusted all offensive ships based on their SP value to either increase their Hull or Attack.
I am personally monitoring the balance in the game 24/7 for the next 1-2 weeks to see if this rebalancing update does fix some of the balancing issues especially effecting Marauders.
Give aways
All viral who have already researched the UnReverse Engineer project will get it again.
+15 Big Time Capsules to all players
+10 Planetary Core Capsules to all players
Ships adjusted
+ Light fighter drone shield penalty reduced by 50%
- Hull to Light Frigate
+ Damage to : All Dark.Marauder Ships, t.Empereur, L. Emerald, L.Topaz, A.Aragonite
+ Hull to : t.Ryu-jin, e.Eel, All metos race ships, All collective h.class, v.Borrelly, t.Nirvana, t.Kalieum, A.Hoko
+ Damage & Hull to: all terran p class, all runner class, t.Hercules
g.Diamond & s.Lapiz changed to paid only
f.Sword : +Hull -Build rate
e.Eel : +Build rate
k.Hun-Li : -Hull
New Marauder Ship : d.Dominions (defensive ship, Marauder dont have any d class defensive ships at all)
Balancing calculation, ratios and the complete ship list can also be downloaded here
2005-12-06
Marauder D class ship adjustment: Hull/Pr ratio adjusted to 1.2% instead of 0.8%, range & weapon has been reduced to compensate for this. W+H/Pr rating = maintained the same. Layman terms : we increased the hull and reduced the damage caused by the ships, this will effectively makes the ship last longer or wont be killed of that easily after battles. This is to offset the high ship building cost for D class ships.
2005-12-06
Note: This update was meant to be on 4th but postponed cause Stephen isnt feeling well.
Minor update is scheduled on 2005-12-06 11:00 AM server time. The main goal is to improve game play (bug fixes) and the long awaited marauder balancing.
New / ImprovedNew / Improved
o Game-Admins can now change your federation name (GC & UC). Previously players have to email to Stephen and wait for a couple of days. Since federation name is cached name change will not take effect until the next server refresh.
o Federation now has faction. This allows a federation to support a particular faction, namely the Kalzul, Dark Maraders or Metos race.
Change
+1 digit to assigning planets, so instead of 999 you get 9,999 (paid has +2 digit)
+30 Bonus to systems upgrade. Reason: cost of Fast & Very-Fast build is astronomically high therefore we hope this will slightly help players out.
-Hull to Light Frigate, e.Ray, e.Piranha
+Hull to e.Eel
+20% to Commercial for Viral race
+Faster ship build rate for Marauder ships but -Range for Marauder e class ships
+Weapon to all Marauder d class ships, except for d.Fallen
+Weapon to all Stafez runner class ships
+Shield to for Kalzul & Dark Marauder alien invasion ships, give weakness to Kalzul ship
-Slight Weapon reduction by 0.1% w+h/pr ratio for guardian K class
o Disallow Marauders, Kalzul & Metos race from building ships, exploring & attacking
+4 transports (sending tribute or cash to other players)
o In the project page, the credits/turns left column only appears after 3 seconds, this has been set to 0 seconds
+3 digit to credit allocation for projects for paid account holders
Bug fixed
o Sometimes in the project page, a server busy error appears after using system related projects
o Top rank sometimes displays a server busy error when displaying top in infrastructure research
o Moving ministers from systems to system, system to hq or hq to system sometimes messes up the income
o System will automatically remove negative amounts in the market, negative numbers in the market occurs once every 5,000,000 posts (effects GC & UC)
o If you attacked someone and gotten attacked at the same time, and have waited for more than 40 minutes without logging out then attacking again automatically logs you out. This effects IE 4.x only.
o After you click on build ship there is a 0.001 seconds window if you are attacked, you will get logged out
o If you buy more than 2 billion worth of minerals at a single time you will encounter an error page, if you logout without using a turn, the purchase will be voided.
o Loophole: If in theory someone buys 15 trillion food from the market within an hour, and keep buying any amount of food once every 5 second and keep doing so for 30 minutes, this person would cause the game server to refresh
o An additional double checker has been placed in the market. This will solve: Sometimes the market have 0 or negative (very rare), also allows double posting (effects those using IE with IE cache enabled) that can cause you to have negative minerals or resources by selling more than what you have.
o When you have 4999 loyalty and if you put 2 turns, the system will deduct 2 turns instead of 1
o Text typo fixed in market & reward pop page
o Default price for selling ore (if over $1000) has a comma, and the system rejects comma
o Clicking on the view empire `v` in popular contest sometimes shows up white screen
o Disable vacation mode in Deathmatch server
o In the project page when you have 0 turns you will not be able to put in credits to the project
2005-11-13
Minor update is scheduled on 2005-11-13 11:00 AM server time. The main goal is to improve game play (ex: Retal filter & bug fixes) and balancing the game via features (ex: very-fast build) and changes (ex: slight changes to race & ships)
New / Improved
o Very Fast Build : Builds ships 100x faster
o Added security for anti-bot for all affected pages
o Rank-near-me retal filter : shows the number of retal left you have on an empire, & when the person is coming out of DP in the rank page itself (saves time cause you dont need to click on the `v` to view each empire.
Change
+10% Commercial to Terran, Marauder, Viral
+5% Commercial to Guardian
+20% Mining & +40% to Commercial to Collective
+ weapon to Strafez Runner class ships
+ weapon to terran P Class ships
-1 range to Guardian K Class
-5% Shield to Light fighter-drone (because lfd dont use any minerals to build, making it ultra-cheap)
o Allow reinforcements to be sent even if it comes from the same Pc or IP, previously an anti-cheat system disallows this
Rank-near-me no lord & fed filter : only shows those active empires (those who have logged in the last 48 hours only). This saves time for the player so he/she dont need to check who is active and who is not and would make it easier to invite vassals & fed members.
o Vacation mode requires 20 hours of no attacking, previously this was 24 hours
o Remove feature to disable attacker from capturing defender`s reinforcements
o Increase maximum selling of minerals from 9,999,999 to 999,999,999 (+2 digit for paid users)
o Increase maximum selling of resources (other than mineral) from 999,999,999 to 9,999,999,999 (+2 digit for paid users)
Bug fixed
o Reinforcements is supposed to be 25% but was 50% instead
o Players cant go into vacation mode when they attack someone in the past x hours, this error message isnt being displayed.
o Private message forward not working
o Capture: if the ship capture is not in the attack (ex: starbase for attacker) then the ships captured will appear as double stack (applies for both attacker and defender)
This may be implemented in the future (may or may not go tru, we are still considering it)
o Explore for ruins - allow players to explore for ruins, another option other than exploring for planets. Once explored and found players can then build this stuff, ex: Excavator (Small), for a whole list check out the Manual > Project List
o Improved help & support system
o Improved forum system
o Auto-login, automatically logs you in (may pose as a security risk cause anyone who has access to your Pc can login as you)
o Force vassalize, players can force vassalize another empire by paying 200-300% more honors
o A way to track who kills the most Kalzul, D.Maru or Metos (so we can give rewards accordingly)
o Federation projects/wonders
o Federation missions
o Online tip, in specific page a tip box will appear offering tips to players
+ More sabotage features
+ To sabotage related artifacts power
- Marauder e class ships
Note:
+ = Increase/upgrade (or adding new ships)
- = Nerf
2005-11-05
Changed
o Level up minister, allow players to +20 level instead of just +1 lvl for paid accounts
o If lord inactive for more than 7 days, to declare freedom = free
o Amount you can send via tribute has been increased by 320%, this should be good for those in RT
o Raising pop auto-limit. This means raising pop will automatically be stopped once you have reached the maximum population. Previously you have to calculate the turns, using additional turns will be wasted.
o Sabotage has been reduced to 5 seconds from 15 seconds, impact of sabotage increased to 10x, so 1 click = 10 clicks (saves time to sabotage).
Bug fixed
o Disband outpost ships will sometimes deduct more from the reinforcement statistics page than it is supposed to
o Honors required to declare freedom not shown properly on page
o Battle bug : if a stack is wiped out sometimes the stack under it doesnt attack
o Battle bug : reinforcements anti-cheat isnt working sometimes, by right players arent suppose to get reinforcements from those using the same PC or IP address as the player
o Battle bug : The system shows a 30 minute wait to attack the same empire again, its actually 15 minutes not 30 minutes (display error), so you can actually attack the same guy again after 15 minutes not 30.
2005-11-04
Rebalancing update a great success... the following were accomplished (according to plan)
- Average credits for guardian has dropped to 2nd place with 68 points right after ming with 74 points (the way it should be, because miner = supposedly to be the richest in the game).
+ Marauder have the highest Pr per planet ratio, and is capable of maintaining their planets and Pr as opposed to previously
- Prices of food & minerals have dropped in the market to a more reasonable level
+ More players are upgrading their systems
The following balancing task has not met its objectives, so dont fear because we are currently monitoring this and will use the results to see how to rebalance the game further.
- K class guardian ships
+ Strafez Runner class ships
The following may be rebalanced in the future:
+ Viral income or + Viral ship
+ Collective ships
+ Bonus to flank attack in battle (flank = ex: if 1 stack attacks 2, 2nd stack attack is called flank, where its a free shot). this is to encourage players to use more stacks and to decrease the effectiveness of `Single Ship Spam`
The following feature has a chance of being implemented in the future (not 100% sure yet):
o Force vassalize, players can force vassalize another empire by paying 200-300% more honors
+ More sabotage features
+ To sabotage related artifacts power
Note:
+ = Increase/upgrade (or adding new ships)
- = Nerf
2005-10-30
Thanks to the feedback of players we will be performing a minor rebalancing update on 2005-10-30 at 11:00 am
Changes
Simplify income page (found at manage planet > income details in gray), calculations remain the same, layout (page design) for tax has been changed to follow commercial
Raw Material production +50%; 1 planet of agriculture now produces 1.5 raw material instead of 1
+System bonus if you upgrade your system. This is to give more incentive to players who upgrade their system and for the cost of planets used for upgrading the system. Dark system defensive bonus increased.
Tax Minister bonus reduced from 10% to 5%
Strafez Runner W+H/Pr rating will be increased
Guardian Kalzul class ships W+H/Pr rating will be reduced by 0.3% to 0.4%, cost of build and upkeep increased slightly
Marauder
All ships updated: all d class ships will cost a lot more (credits only mineral requirement remains the same) to build but will have ultra-lower upkeep, non-d class cost and upkeep = almost same with terran, marauders can choose to have temporary (non-d class) or long term ships (d class ships would be cheaper to keep them rather than to disband them).
2 new ships for marauder, d.fallen and e.corral (starbase).
marauder commercial & agriculture income has been increased by a lot, industry income reduced.
on the whole the income for marauders and terran after the update should be almost the same
all marauders will get the i-tech library
Race Bonus
Commercial bonus increased for Marauder, Guardian, A.Miner, Collective
Agriculture & Mining bonus increased for almost all races
Notes:
W+H/Pr = rating on how powerful the ship is (weapon + hull / pr)
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