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covert and anti covert level increases
Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2006 5:35 am
by durandt
I do not know if this has been suggested before, but here goes anyway.
at the moment you need to have the whole lump sum to increase your levels and this just gets harder and harder as you go up as it keeps doubling.
So I think it would be better if you could pay off towards the amount needed to increase your covert and anti covert levels.
Please let me know what you think.
If this is considered to not be a good idea, i would also like to know why
Thanks
Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2006 5:43 am
by gooseman the first
you mean like installments?
been suggested and shot down before, dont have the topic handy tho..... try searching for it
*waits for wolfy and his shotgun

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Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2006 5:51 am
by Wolf359
yeah - this has been suggested before, several times - a long time ago. The simple reason it is not introduced is because it is SUPPOSED to be harder to get higher levels. I remember when it was considered almost impossible for people to get level 14!
The point is you need to grow in order to get what you want.
Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2006 6:01 am
by [DL] stevens
Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2006 6:13 am
by Wolf359
heh heh - yeah, sounds funny now, but I remember infiltrating the private sections of The Order of Chaos' forum and everyone was getting excited because thethirdlibra (who was one of the top players at the time) was about to get level 12 or 13.
Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2006 6:44 am
by grimgor
that why there Bank PPT and market
Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2006 6:56 am
by [DL] stevens
Wolf359 wrote:heh heh - yeah, sounds funny now, but I remember infiltrating the private sections of The Order of Chaos' forum and everyone was getting excited because thethirdlibra (who was one of the top players at the time) was about to get level 12 or 13.
lmaaaaaaaaaaao well i remember me having 100 UP and i was sooo happy with it
Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2006 4:51 pm
by undead21
lol i remember when people drooled over incomes of 100 mill, and 1 bill actualy got you one heck of a long way..... ime thinkin we should try and downsize this inflation......
too much money everywhare
Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2006 5:09 pm
by ~not telling~
yea...all the dead accounts ahould be deleted...but then there goes raiding. and finding someone with naq would be hard.when i started in september 2005 (almost a year now)my attack got up to 3 billion and was ranked 70. for about 3 months.i was also ranked way better back then.
Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2006 6:32 pm
by ManiacMan
Back on topic: There is no way this will be implemented.
However, you have many options available to you if you can't save up one lump sum.
1. Do it the "natural way" and buy weapons, then sell them all at once, and get your spy lvl. This was once the only way to get lvls.
2. Sell resources. One of the best strategies is to train a bunch of spies, slowly building up your covert. Then, at some point simply untrain some of your spies, and sell them for naq. If you do it right, your covert action will not drop.
Off topic: I remember being the first one to get lvl 22 "naturally" (I could be the only one, no one is that dumb nowadays). Sleipnir was the first to get lvl 21 "naturally" and I was about 2 days behind him. And just to put that in perspective, a good naq hit was 30mill, and you could only sell 999 weapons at a time. I had many FF tabs open

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Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2006 6:56 pm
by gooseman the first
ah the early days, i so wish i could have been there, sounds like it was so much fun *sigh*
Posted: Fri Aug 18, 2006 7:25 am
by Wolf359
undead21 wrote:lol i remember when people drooled over incomes of 100 mill, and 1 bill actualy got you one heck of a long way..... ime thinkin we should try and downsize this inflation......
too much money everywhare
I remember getting excited because I could afford 1 X302 per day!!! - And I can remember when an excellent naq hit was 100k. lol
But ManiacMan is correct - there are other ways to have enough naq to buy higher levels - by storing naq in the forms of weapons etc. It is more expensive - but that is the price you for essentially getting something you cannot afford - call it a form of loan interest.
Posted: Fri Aug 18, 2006 7:29 am
by [DL] stevens
Wolf359 wrote:I remember getting excited because I could afford 1 X302 per day!!! - And I can remember when an excellent naq hit was 100k. lol
yeh i remember 100k per hit