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I've been here for a while now, even though I thought I would quit after Attax ruined my gaming experience. I'm still here, just not very active.
What I have seen lately though is companies being more and more useless. Many people is talking about Q4 Resource are the only Resource Companies that actually give you any real cash nowadays.
The only way to fix this is to either
A. Make stuff more expensive to create.
It's now a inflation of items that no one uses. After you hit ES 7 you usually afford Q5 Food x 10 and a descent amount of Q1 Weaps. The whole strategy behind the game is falling apart, since you don't have to plan your fighting as much anymore.
This doesn't solve the problem with Countries owning Stone/Wood though. Stone and wood are still "useless" compared to Grain, Diamonds and Iron.
Therefor we come to the solution I hope for
B. Introduce a new set of items.
Grain
The grain item could be a way to introduce a new training - Grenade Launcher. Grenade Launchers will not be able to deal as much damage as normal fighting though.
Grenade Launcher Attributes:
Precision - The GL gets better with a new personal attribute: Precision. The higher precision, the higher damage dealt with GL. Strength has nothing to do with GL's damage.
Rounds - You are limited to 5 rounds a day. This means you may only shoot the GL 5 times a day.
Training - Training costs grain (or Field food, that are made out of grain) and will rise the Precision of GL. The amount of Precision the GL will get is far less than a "new human" would get for normal training. But still makes a difference along the way.
Launcher Skilll - This is the same as Rank, but only gives you bonus when you use your Grenade Launcher as attacking device.
Although, Grenade Launchers can use ammo. This takes us to item no. 2
Stone
Stones are now used in the creation of weapons (Splitter Grenades) for GL. As easy as that.
Instead of normal Grenades you now fire with more splitters, more dmg, when you use Splitter Grenades.
Iron
On iron I will introduce barricades. These will have a smaller amount of defensive % than Defence Systems, but they will run on a different mode. It's basically the same as Defence Systems only that Defence Systems got 26//26 and Barricades 26/26 on another scale. To make it easier to understand, you can now have 6 Q3 DS. You will after the update have a possibility to have 6 Q3 DS AND 6 Q3 Barricades. What I also consider being a good way to implement is to have (%DS + %Barricades) instead of (%DS x %Barricades). This will make it more challenging to distribute the Barricades.
To make the barricades more effective for smaller countries: You can only put up Barricades in your core regions.
Wood
This one is hard. I want something that makes the game more cooperative. The whole game breath cooperation, but what I have seen since I stopped playing seriously is that it didn't benefit me very much to be cooperative. Therefor I want to introduce a item that only others can use on you. It gives you health, but you can't give it to yourself. You can receive it 5 times a day. This will also delay the fight from t2 to maybe t3, so you can maximize your damage.(and take a small load off the server)
What this item should be called? No idea.. Wood is really hard to figure out.. Boat, House and Hammers are the only things I can think of when it comes to wood.
Diamonds will stay unchanged. This is since the inflation on this market have still not went totally out of control. If you disagree you can feel free to come up with suggestions on what we should do with this item.
One idea I've had is that you can create hammers/"workers gift" which you can use on your company to make the company produce a little more. This one is really hard to balance though, so I leave it as a quote, but this could be the item for Diamonds.
This update would really update the game and save the economy!
EDIT:
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