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Aug 23rd 2013, 17:35:16

Hi All,

As promised, I'm implementing a hotfix for the fast-DR, based on observing actual game play.

On Monday 00:00 GMT (1377475200 unix time) the fast-DR decay rate will change from 0.7% per hit to:

0.4% for GS
0.5% for AB &etc
0.6% for BR

The way they are applied is that hits are counted, and the base is used for the current hit; ie it doesn't matter if previous hits were BR or GS, only how many there were, and what you are attacking with now.


Whether or not this will render the fast-DR ineffective or not remains to be seen.


Thanks, and once again leave your thoughts/comments/suggestions below.

-qzjul & the EE Dev team

Edited By: qzjul on Aug 23rd 2013, 18:12:33
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Grady Game profile

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Aug 23rd 2013, 18:09:02

Does "0.05% for AB &etc" cover AB only or something else too?

Did you really mean 0.05%~0.07%? Aren't the rates 0.5%~0.7%?

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Aug 23rd 2013, 18:13:31

err yes, good catch, that's correct :) updated.

(i'm actually using 0.996, 0.995, 0.994 incidentally; and failing at percent math this morning; back to khan academy for me i guess heh)
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Aug 23rd 2013, 18:14:24

And by AB &etc i mean, *technically* this counts for SS/PS as well, as it goes through the same code, it's just that most people don't do fast SS/PS KR's; default is 0.995 == 0.5%
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Aug 23rd 2013, 18:31:10

So now you are encouraging GS kills nice :( you should get BR's also to 5%, that will make the KR's a bit faster then they are

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Aug 23rd 2013, 18:48:52

I'd also like to reiterate that fastDR will *NOT* go into FFA.
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Aug 23rd 2013, 18:50:17

soultaker: I believe the difference is there for minimum returns. qzjul can correct me if I'm wrong.
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Aug 23rd 2013, 18:55:23

yea, in practise it seems that GS was taking longer because of the minimum return being lower; though in alphaffa for some reason they always came out close to the same, though i think that's a result of the nw/nw being too similar most of the time we were testing, rather than a broad spectrum of nw/nw's during a real KR
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Aug 23rd 2013, 19:41:55


So its better to start with GS and end with BR?

I'm sure I'm oversimplifying it.

elvesrus

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Aug 23rd 2013, 20:42:34

returns wise it's always better to BR when your personal GS returns drop under 10 civs.

resource wise on the other hand...
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Aug 26th 2013, 1:29:27

Originally posted by elvesrus:
returns wise it's always better to BR when your personal GS returns drop under 10 civs.

resource wise on the other hand...


and obviously if a player gets on to stonewall, he/she is a parking lot and ruined, forced to rebuild, remake CS's etc.. Still a no brainer UNLESS... you have a ton of turns, break that badass fast and kill it. To Jet or not to Jet, that is the question.
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Soultaker

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Aug 26th 2013, 8:01:34

Originally posted by elvesrus:
soultaker: I believe the difference is there for minimum returns. qzjul can correct me if I'm wrong.


yes i got that we'll see how it works out :P... i like BR's

Soultaker

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Aug 31st 2013, 12:20:01

reporting back on the Hotfix - hop qzjul sees this and takes advice so we have more conclusive data

Also take into consideration that it still takes over 400 GS's to kill a country with res tech and around 95k population and around 1min 20sec meaning this will advantage sooner FS's in alliance server - the smaller the countries the less hits to kill- wars will start breaking out in the 1st 2 weeks of the set.

you could try lowering the GS to 3% and the BR to 5% and see how that works out - at least a lot of us are warring this set and we can test it

PS: If it doesn't work ok you can raise them back up :)

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Sep 1st 2013, 15:57:41

Originally posted by Soultaker:
the smaller the countries the less hits to kill- wars will start breaking out in the 1st 2 weeks of the set.


But, this has always been true, no?
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Sep 1st 2013, 19:20:26

well wouldn't you want wars to start a bit later so they last more and are harder?

It's true that smaller countries take less hits to kill but the difference seems a bit high between killing a tyr/farmer with 80k population -that would mean 8-9kA lets say and a rep or theo which at the same ammount of land would have 150-200K populationa and since we are at it and killing each other we might as well try it and see how it works out right?

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Sep 2nd 2013, 23:16:59

Originally posted by Soultaker:
well wouldn't you want wars to start a bit later so they last more and are harder?


Sure, but this didn't affect that really...

Originally posted by Soultaker:

It's true that smaller countries take less hits to kill but the difference seems a bit high between killing a tyr/farmer with 80k population -that would mean 8-9kA lets say and a rep or theo which at the same ammount of land would have 150-200K populationa and since we are at it and killing each other we might as well try it and see how it works out right?


I'm not sure what you mean by that?
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Soultaker

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Sep 3rd 2013, 2:39:39

i mean a difference in hits... it takes around 300 gs to kill a tyr and around 400 gs to kill a rep due to the population factor

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Sep 3rd 2013, 2:54:46

depends how fast you go of course... =/
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