There has also been bugs like this in numerous games, where neutral countries are being attacked due to proximity.
Had this happen in a game recently where an enemy parked his battlship on a neutral battleship, my subs sank both, and paper reflected the neutral country losing troops to me. But we remained at peace.
The most recent sent to the bottom sounds like a terrible idea...
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1 - I don't know if deleting messages works, since I have seen that the other player can read them when you write and delete
2 - I think spies can't access coalition communication
3 - This is actually working
I think spies can access only the last message from each player, so if both of them write something without value would work too.
Maybe someone with more experience in this matter can confirm this, it is just what I guessed from spying
Not only the last message. If you want to embrace the fun there are 2 ways we have done it.
1.) me and allies (usually RL friends) have downloaded an enigma simulator. We send random messages to get the settings the same, then we actually use the newspaper to send messages. It is hilarious b/c you are putting your plans on display but no one is going to break the code. We also included updates to settings to change the code.
2.) Can send multiple messages broken into fragments.
Ie. Message is "Let's attack Germany tomorrow at noon"
Send it in 5 separate messages.
1.) let's
2.) attack
3.) Germany
4.) tomorrow
5.) at noon
chances of spies intercepting all 5 messages is very slim.
You can gain the same advantage using discord... they hardly need to be in same room. Something that has to be played against.
Display MoreActually a 85 player map.
Basically like current 100p, but not having some of Pacific and adjacent nations, making it impossible to go around the world (somewhat like smaller maps currently) and basically fighting in a constrained rectangle.
It was basically created as such at first, because game initially lacked ability to loop the map smoothly, and changed to current 100p once that functionality had been implemented.
Map itself has nothing to offer gameplay-wise compared to current map. Not something I'd enjoy at least.
Only thing I could see is that if you like it to be more linear so like naval combat being forced to connect Americas and AfroEurasia through Atlantic (as Pacific is unavailable).
Some players like to bruteforce one direction and not be worried about their behind, but IMO that feels like a downgrade.
100% this. It would be a downgrade. Having to watch multiple fronts provides more dynamic play. 90% of the people I play as soon as you break their front line, or avoid their mass stack army, their backsides are completely unprotected.
Inactivity has been a problem for over a decade.
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I think we could change it. We have AI right? So there could be an algorithm that tracks peoples game behaviour. I dont mean this to be punitive. Its good that people have the opportunity to learn by starting new games. What we want is for people not necessarily stay to the end, but incentivise them to make an effort even if they are losing. it makes sense to give up and leave when you are dow to a few territories or are out of resources with no options. But I have banded together with people against the odds in the past and taken down some dominant players using strategy. Its really satisfying . And to be honest, most people really respect you when you put up a good fight.
So the question remains - how to incentivise gutsy behaviour?
I'm thinking of a metric that reward deeper player engagement rather than just starting lots of games and bailing. Which is fine, and shouldn't be punished or made wrong. it just shouldn't be rewarded. Any currently the incentive is to leave the game you dont like and start up somewhere else. Thats nice for the individual but its pretty crappy for the collective. ITs pandering to the short attention span of the player rather than encouraging a really rewarding level of gameplay that is possible with this game.
I am writing up my proposal for this metric as we speak.
I will post here later on when I have finished my proposal.
This has been an issue since the beginning. The only way you could probably do it is punitive. And even then, people would just create new accounts probably to get around it.
That is part of the great "fix".
Now instead of using Fighters as scouts like we had for decades. We have to worry about setting them on "Patrol" to pop subs, when all it takes is a few LC moved into the patrol area to make that useless.
Same with AC or balloons into a fort.
