Inferno™ wrote:Bad idea if you can steal lifers it can be easily abused. Income should be an untouchable stat as simple as that.
And this is the reason prices and armies are spiraling out of control. Look at the giant war raging atm, the only way one side will lose if if they get bored. You can't kill income, you can't really touch UU production, so you can't really do anything to hurt an account unless it leaves itself wide open. Look at the tactics that have been used in the past year+, they are not centered around winning, but rather just minimizing losses and being an annoyance to your opponent.
Another thing to think about is how such would affect the larger players. You all keep saying "they will now truly be able to sit on an account til delete". You forget, the guy with a 20 mil army would suddenly have a lot more to lose than the guy with a 500k army. Yeah, you can get away with it for a while, but get aggressive enough for too long, and eventually someone will take exception and reduce you nothing, that's just the way the game gets played.
With raiding being what it is, this would be a perfect counter-balance to it. Armies can litereally be raided and brought down in the span of days, and wars would be a hell of a lot more interesting. As the larger players were whittled away (and given this war, they would be), naq generation across the server would fall and prices would probably see a drop. I see a lot of the complaints that keep resurfacing being at least partially addressed by this one change.
Let UU be raided, add a function for specifically targetting and killing miners/lifers. This still leaves AC as an option for effectively "storing" UU that can't be touched (or just use base attack units), but now you have the added element of trying to determine how much of your units go into production, knowing they are vulnerable, and sitting on a 1 mil def. and generating a couple bil. naq a turn becomes an untenable strategy (OMG, You would have to actually FIGHT in a war!!!).
I just think a lot of people don't want to see this type of update because they might lose their armies. Get over it, it's numbers on a screen. I'd rather have a deeper gameplay that requires more tactics than "dur, I'll just train miners and Im untouchable" and watch my account occasionally get zeroed in a war than keep plodding along wit the way it is currently.
Heh, Baszy... with that method in place, it's easy. There IS no such thing as a 2 years work. They all get whacked back to earth. lmao
to do this:
(well, expect for ascending... but that has nothing to do with this)
