Posts by seths53rd

Quote from ScaredyCat

Ok.. i would say this amount of GM usage is uncommon. I have played 100+ maps, and I have encountered heavy goldmark usage like what you have described less than 10 times. On these rare occasions, I mostly ended up losing. But I still find it quite satisfying to make the person spend as much goldmarks as possible. Just note that this is not very prevalent. Moderate level of goldmark usage, yes. But using goldmark to constantly maintain troop and province morale at 100% is rare.

Also, despite appearances, there is a chance that he may not be keep up his goldmark usage.

• His use of goldmark is highly inefficient. For example, using goldmarks to keep morale of infantry stacks and province at 100% is very costly.
• There is a goldmark sale which gives a 1000% (10x) bonus for goldmark purchase. This sale is only available once per account. He might have gotten his goldmark from this one-time sale. If so, when he depletes this batch of goldmarks, he will have to spend more real life money to buy it (at a more expensive price), which he may not.

He would want you guys to think that he has unlimited goldmark to spend, so you all will give up. But there is a chance that if you guys keep up the fighting, he will run out of goldmarks...

As a sidenote, I do think the 1000% sale is quite unbalanced as it encourages people to keep recreating new accounts just to take advantage of it.

yeah thats what we have been doing. we would flank him make him buy more stuff with his GM and then keep him doing it

Quote from ScaredyCat

A few thoughts..

First, from the limited information available in your post, I am not convinced that this player is heavily using goldmarks.

• Remember that this is a 4x speed game. I don't know how long this game had gone on for, but this level of building and units is easily achievable in 1 real life week (28 in-game days) without goldmark use.
• Whether or not he has bought anything on the stock market is irrelevant and not indicative of goldmark use.
• Also, this game is very much luck dependent. For example, it could be that two of his neighbours suicide-attacked each other and he manage to swop in to capture the provinces with little unit loss (and maybe even capture some of those provinces with high-level factories intact).
• To really get greater clarity on whether he used large amount of goldmarks, we need to know how long the game has lasted, and you need to look at the newspaper to examine his development trajectory.

Second, regardless of how he managed to get the units he got, you guys have a realistic chance of defeating him. Your game is not "ruined".

• From your post, this guy does not have ANY artilleries. Given the importance of artilleries in this game, this indicates that he may not be very good at this game and that you guys have a decent chance of defeating him.
• This is a 4x speed game, he needs to sleep/work and there are several of you up against him. Even if the time window is narrow, there would still have a sufficient time window for you to strike him when he is unavailable. Use artilleries to weaken his forces with no losses. Maybe the effects of this isn't too obvious in a single day, but it adds up over a few real life days.
• If there are multiple players fighting him, you all have a natural advantage due to the morale penalty from war.
• With good tactics and strategy, you can take out his mechanical units. Tanks can be countered by artilleries, you can split stack against his planes (while you gradually build fighters to counter his airforce). Railguns are relatively weak (mostly just for psychological effect). Battleships are more difficult to counter if he knows what he is doing, but battleship can only attack near the coast and has no effects inland. Read the strategy forum to learn more about the various tactics and tricks.

Finally, maybe you will still end up losing, but

• As someone already said, goldmark is part of the game
• It is only through having these challenging fights that you become better at this game. See this as a learning opportunity to get better.

yeah we have an entire server fighting this guy. he spawned 33 heavy tanks, 20 battleships, sabotaged my entire province, built over 50 planes, and still keeps his units and provinces at 100%. its not a learning situation when out flanking and out maneuvering is just being stopped by buying units and keeping their morale at 100% at all times. He is spending an ungodly amount of money on this match and we have no chance.

so the Goldmark is part of the game but using it to keep your units "invincible" should not be part of that advantage.

Whereas I get the GM revenue and building aspect. but giving them the option to increase morale while being bombarded makes them practically invincible. I think the GM is good for your business but when someone has spread like wild fire, has just about every nation at war with them, and their morale in every unit and province stays at 100% at all times even through a bombing run and bombardment is very unfair for those who cant spend GM on every single unit and province to keep up their morale.

I'm in a 500 player war and this guy is using GM to keep every one of his provinces at 100 percent right after capturing it, builds 17 heavy tanks in one go to guard a province, keeps them at 100% the entire bombardment...hes invincible.

so I dont think you should be able to improve morale to units or at the very least, have a combat cool down before you can use GM to improve morale..like an hour or 30 minutes after combat. thats the only thing I think should happen.