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PPT Market Cost

Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2006 2:34 am
by Quina Quen
Imagine having over a million untrained units/mining equivalents - and it only takes little over 16k at the moment to engage yourself in a PPT using the market...

Now imagine having little over 16k of untrained units/mining equivalents and no bank account *raise an eyebrow*..."OK so what's the point?" you're asking...

Well... (not complaining) just looking, and 5 of the top 10 are currently on PPT... Each of those players' accounts are choc-a-bloc with disposable units unlike, many of the other 36,000+ accounts...

Is it not reasonable to say that going on PPT for these boys is too easy and not costly enough?

With such an abundance of resources (miners) they're in a far superior position exponentially - thus creating a greater gap between themselves and the rest of the galaxy whilst in PPT...

"But PPT costs you exactly the same as it costs them" you say...
No. It doesn't :-) I lose a greater percentage of my income to support that tactic. The big players lose peanuts and reap masses more naq in PPT anyway...

Wouldn't it be fair to charge for PPT based on the number of UU you have?

Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2006 2:37 am
by [KMA]Avenger
very good point red...and one i totally agree with

Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2006 3:59 am
by Zurra
Extremely good idea, this would even the game out massively.
I'll be intrested to see which massive alliance argues against this tho lol.

Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2006 5:40 am
by The Deity
I totally agree with this. It's way to easy for higher ranked people with large amount of UU's to go on PPT and come out with a large profit while the little guy almost decimates his account with very little gain if any. This might also fix the ‘StargateWars is currently on PPT’ problem as well.

Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2006 6:28 am
by Vegito
I think the point is that it won't be rank based... it will be resource based... so if you are ranked 7,000 but you have 22mil UU then your ppt would be considerably higher than someone that is ranked 200 with 120k UU...

Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2006 6:39 am
by Bad Wolf
I agree that it is to easy, but I disagree about pices based on there UU, coz they worked are for them [ most of them ] what about it costing more for everyone ?

Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2006 6:46 am
by Quina Quen
It's fair to say that they worked hard for them but how hard do they have to work to obtain more? Think about it from an exponential point of view...

A player with 160k of miners would untrain 16k to trade for PPT if he/she so required it - This is 10% of the total army size.

A second player however, with 1.6m miners, untrains his/her 16k for PPT. It's a meager 1%...

Exponentially, it's quite a significant gap in terms of total earnings. And the gap only serves to get bigger.

Bad Wold wrote: but I disagree about pices based on there UU, coz they worked are for them [ most of them ] what about it costing more for everyone ?


Increase it for everyone? And make it even more inaccessible for "younger" players?

Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2006 6:54 am
by Bad Wolf
I take that back.

Red is right, More UU more PPT costs.

Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2006 6:58 am
by Apadizamek
indeed a good idea red

i must say i am most impressed by it

i support this 100%


it cost me my eintire army to get PPT this week :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:

Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2006 7:06 am
by Artiglio
or what about this ... NO PPT :!: :-D

Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2006 7:07 am
by Bad Wolf
Årtiglio wrote:or what about this ... NO PPT :!: :-D


Yep im happy with that.

Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2006 7:32 am
by TheSoulHarvester
Årtiglio wrote:or what about this ... NO PPT :!: :-D


why not? would make the game more on the edge!
the faster clicker reaps rewards so to speak :lol: :lol:

Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2006 9:06 am
by Quina Quen
Sorry but please can we stay on topic..

(you can't take away PPT)

Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2006 9:20 am
by Cole
Bad Wolf wrote:
Årtiglio wrote:or what about this ... NO PPT :!: :-D


Yep im happy with that.

hmmm...
NO


IF ONLY BASED ON UU/MINERS IM OK :P
BUT I WANT IT STILL AVAILABLE AS I LOVE PPTS :P :P

Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2006 9:22 am
by JIX
sorry never read the hole topic just your post and i thought it was a good idea but instead of the price based on there uu/miners why not cost them 25% of what they would make on that ppt so if some one making 1billion a turn wanted to go on ppt it would cost near 20billion for them