BINGEBOT 2015 Posted:

– Remove all ridiculous Raiding rules (raid only every 60 hours, raid group size limit, no alts allowed in raid, etc)

Biggest klan wins, a gift to Wechall.

meeeeeeeeee Posted:

I do not plan on sticking around if I can play once every 4 weeks, competing against players who can participate every week. How do you propose to balance this?

My point is, there are tons of people who can play only once every 4 weeks, or less, NOW, because of the ending time. This suggestion balances it over more people.

It’s not perfect, but it’s way more balanced than what we have now.

Also would you ****ing stop playing the selfish card, when there are self evidently problems with the current system.

BINGEBOT 2015 Posted:

- Every week Domination End time rotates 9pm, 3am, 9am, 3pm EST

I would say to try all of these out for a week each, and then whichever one gathers to most traffic to the site we keep. You can’t please everyone, and pleasing the Majority is the next best thing.

Picking a time would be great, but also quite a bit of coding.

Rotating end times could be tried for a month with minimal coding if any (it may just need a manual reset of a counter). Maybe as a mini-season after this season ends, with medals but no peen awarded.

MC Banhammer Posted:

Oh, and for the love of goatse, just push this through already:

– Every week Domination End time rotates 9pm, 3am, 9am, 3pm EST

I keep saying this and getting ignored, but I’ll say it again – instead of picking times at random, try and get some ideas from the player base as to what times would work. The 9am time in particular I think would work for a very small percentage of people.

BINGEBOT 2015 Posted:

I believe the idea here is to support Euro players. As I’ve said before, build first, tweak second. If those times don’t work, perhaps we’d do 9am and 9pm only. The point is that alternating Dom times would accommodate the Euro players.

In the meantime perhaps we should try another Russian Roulette week Log in to see images!

That’s what I was thinking – 9am server time would be 2pm U.K. 3pm Germany, probably not the best times. 4 or 5 hours later would probably be better.

BINGEBOT 2015 Posted:

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The old thread was stale so I’m starting a new one. These changes are proposed changes and will be implemented as time goes on. Please provide feedback.

Raid changes:

– Allow officers to create raids without joining them (for now just ensure you have enough officers to raid)

– Remove all ridiculous Raiding rules (raid only every 60 hours, raid group size limit, no alts allowed in raid, etc)

Medal changes:

– NEW MEDALS!

Scoop changes

– Add a daily scoop earning limit of X (X = 200?)

– Add a weekly scoop earning limit of X (X = 1000?)

– Pistachio scoops revamp (change the way streaks work)

– Martyr 3 times should yield 8 scoops instead of 1

– Remove Antifreeze limit

Other changes

– Every week Domination End time alternates (to address Euro players)

– You can’t earn scoops in the last 24 hours of Domination

– New Cards

– Moar Themes

– Add a “Mobsters backroom Wheel of Fortune” option to get Antifreeze scoops

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Virtually unlimited raiding plus unlimited antifreeze plus daily caps and weekly caps = every serious player will achieve maximum scoops every week.

Might as well just bumign everyone 1000 scoops at the beginning of the week and let them buy cards and attack/defend as they see fit.

Actually that would be an awesome theme week.

Malaise Posted:

Virtually unlimited raiding plus unlimited antifreeze plus daily caps and weekly caps = every serious player will achieve maximum scoops every week.

Might as well just bumign everyone 1000 scoops at the beginning of the week and let them buy cards and attack/defend as they see fit.

Actually that would be an awesome theme week.

Yes. Is there anything wrong with there being a max? The game is supposed to be about Strategy. AKA: How do you make the most of what you have. It is a by-product of all the holes and exploits in the existing system that makes it more about getting the most scoops possible to survive a barrage of card attacks. I’m proposing that the game be made more into a Strategy game like it was always intended to be. Everyone can get the same max and it’s more about how you choose to use the scoops you’ve earned.

Now go and poke holes in what I’ve just said. Why shouldn’t we do this?

BINGEBOT 2015 Posted:

Everyone can get the same max and it’s more about how you choose to use the scoops you’ve earned.

Now go and poke holes in what I’ve just said. Why shouldn’t we do this?

Because then it has nothing to do with how you earn the scoops, it just has to do with how you play cards. If that’s the goal, then take away all the work that goes into earning scoops, give everyone 100 in each color at the beginning of the week, and go.

(Not pointing out how there’s not much strategy behind earning scoops now, it’s just the timing that’s the tricky part.)

EDIT: Welcome back, BTW! Nice to see you again Log in to see images! MC Banhammer edited this message on 07/07/2009 5:39PM

MC Banhammer Posted:

An easy Pistachio fix might be to just cut in half the number of scoops you receive (except for the first one).

That would reduce the number of scoops we receive, but not the fact that you only reach the scoop limit every 4 weeks (or 3.5 if you don’t care about finishing streaks midweek)

Reducing the overall streak length that earns pistachio would reduce the amount of pistachio, and allow players to participate more often. I’d prefer a round number (multiple of 28) so players don’t have to mess around aligning their streaks every time they start again. 28 or 56.

If other flavas are being boosted, it might be necessary to change the scoop increment from 2 to 3 or something