Rank modifier should be looked into..

[Nuto vixen]

I have a pretty decent attack in Ascension, but whenever I try to attack down (which is really the only stats I can see for the most part, I always lose.

I realize that when you attackd own the ranks, to make it fair for the lower players, they have some sort of defence boost, but its a little too high.

I have attacked people with a defence half that of my strike, and when I attack, I lose, and I lose alot of troops, and I lose Command Star weapons.

Can the rank modifier please be reajusted so that you can actually win an attack against low ranked players who doesnt play the game, and doesnt have a very high defence.

[Mango]

I totally agree, it might seem I am harping on about it but we should encourage people to attack each other not put barrier after barrier hampering attacks.

Remove the rank modifiers all together, people cant buying turns to mass low members so turns need to be used wisely, if you waste them on someone then you cant use them on someone else

Encourage attacking and Ascention server might get a bit of life breathed into it

[daivahataka]

Considering most of us have 2000 turns built up I don't think we need to buy turns in order to mass someone.

[Sleipnir]

Just lower the naq/planet hiding threshold. If people can see other peoples dmu/planets, they will be tempted to spy, and attack if they can win. If you don't know what's around you, smashing targets at random is just too risky, and you're better of building up your own realm, and just turtling it out. I feel no need to attack someone 300 ranks below me, with 2M in the open, even if there was no rank modifier. What I want is to see what my peers have lying about that I can use. Just stop the covert craze.

[saab92x]

If a change is done to the covert, it can't be too drastic. The reason that less is seen for "free" is to counter balance the lack of a bank.

If you want to know what someone has out, spy on them, but be ready for heavy losses if your covert isn't high enough. I've also noticed players doing 1 turn attacks to find out how much naq/defence another player has, and in order to avoid any spy losses.

Actually its something I enjoy personnaly. In main you always know if your spys are going to succeed, in ascension there's always that risk.

[Piranha]

I agree. The rank modifier is way too high. I attacked someone about 70 ranks below me and the damage done was 200mill below what my max could be. The covert i think is reasonable enough

[Wintermute]

As long as there is no descension I'll agree.

I will play a bit of devil's advocate though and suggest that part of the motivation for implementing the modifier wasn't to prevent people from stealing DMU from lower ranked players but rather to discourage high rank players from descending lower rank players on a whim given the costs of ascending.

Maybe the modifier can be altered to only work a certain types of attacks pertaining to descension and remove it for raiding and DMU attacks.

[chunkysoup]

i agree with wintermute, and if it is changed, perhaps only weakened slightly, not completely removed

[~Phoenix~]

My attack sometimes lowers by a bil... but im not complaining.

makes the game more of a challenge.

[Piranha]

yeah but when you attack someone slightly lower than you it should decrease as much as it does.

[Lord Dougy]

is it the same when attacking up?? ie does it increase over 100%?

[chunkysoup]

when attacking up, ive noticed that the defending stats are decreased

[Lord Dougy]

well then its basically the same thing then, the difference has decreased