"Away" Function

yea but not in Live money xD in troops right?

 

Those same two guys attacked me as well. =(

 

If you are away for 1-2 weeks, you lose a lot of turns (the maximum 75 turns is reached in 18 and 3/4 hours). Those are turns that are not converted to troops or gold.

Being around only means that you can put your natural income into defense.

Because to the way the game was skewed after the last reorganization, to get the Steelskulls and the Ironheads into 1st and 2nd place, we had to push everybody below 10k, while keeping a member of the Ironheads and the Steelskulls at 400k.

One very real consequence of troop placement: the Wompers are not in the current game because they came in fourth.

Note that while there may not be attacks in the current game, the people started when the game began and haven't lost turns to the maximum have an advantage. This is the reason Eirik, a very good player, gave for leaving the last game last November.

Both Eirik and I use to put a cap on enemy forces. We would not recruit troops and attack all enemies below us. (There is a strategy to stop it but it requires teamwork and patience.)

I only stopped because awesomedrako convinced me that I should attack stronger players. That led to teamwork and diplomacy.

Going forward, if the current session goes past a couple of months (the Goldteeth have a natural bonus advantage, more players and ogreman and Coffee Addict, two very experienced Ironheads/Steelskulls), there should be a provision to protect new players from attacks by veterans. I've proposed a classification where veterans could not attack newcomers whose names have been posted by a nation's leader (to prevent dead accounts from getting protection). New comers would lose protection once they passed a certain troop level.

 

That happened to me before it's annoying

 

I totally agree with this.



I can't take it anymore

 

There are several choices. Get someone above him to attack him and drive him below you, then recruit and hope you have enough defense that his casualties are greater tahn yours.

Get a group. Stay at 74% of him, build up your offense and attack him in turn.

A tactic the Wompers used was to get several players at 74% with some defense and then keep recruiting into him. Eventually, he can no longer stay above all of you and you can move beyond him.

I believe the fundamental problem is that you only play occasionally, so you lose turns to the max (if the maximum turns was set higher, then there wouldn't be as much of a problem for occasional players). Those are turns you can't covert to gold and then convert to gold into defense.