Anyone who plays chess knows that one of the biggest criticism of the game is that players spend too much time memorizing the opening. As a result, a few variants such as Capablanca Chess or Chess960 was developed to add excitement to the game. It could be said that most Champions play some chess variant at least part of the time. (In fact, Capablanca chess was invented by Jose Capablanca and Chess960 by Bobby Fischer.)

If something similar were done to earth, interest would undoubtedly be revived.

-New building types such as power plant and hospital are added and removed periodically. Interesting new effects such as new market dynamics, new spy ops, and attacks.
-Game length changed every time for at least one server. Too many people are basing their games on reset length. If FFA ranged every time from 2 to 4 months, there would be more ways to play. More uncertainty.
-Attack gains would sometimes be based on amount of forces sent. This would force people to have some military in FFA.
-New units added. For example, Kamikaze which all die in an attack, but cost only $40 and have the power of jets.

All these factors change randomly in each reset, much how the pieces change position in Chess960.

Fun random units every set can make things interesting.

Like introduce a new unit in set A like the kamikaze one, then the set after it dissapears and a new things comes in (like a fresh building)

Something that makes players have to adapt consistently.

some sort of adapting as they suggest, from reset to reset, would be a great deal of fun, without having entirely to relearn the game.

http://forums.earthempires.com/...ame-mechanics-every-reset

Suggestion rejected last year.

Too much coding to do. Even with the same mechanics each set, we still have bugs here and there. Imagine with these new changes every set... before one problem solves, another will arise.

It's not a lot of coding to add a unit or something. There's almost no coding involved. Maybe a lot of balance involved, but let the smart player find the inbalances and profit. I'm thinking here btw of a new server to replace Team where all kinds of crazy stuff is introduced and attempted.

I think its better to dedicate a server for new changes and interesting ideas and let it run for a few sets before implementing into more serious servers.

Actually it IS a lot of coding to add a new unit. There is new fields to save in spy ops, code needs to be updated for every page like Military, Advisor, Market.

Text descriptions need to be updated for every attack on unit losses. Private Market needs updates and stuff. Formulas for calculating NW needs updating, and other things that rely on it, etc.

All this is not easy, and tedious on top of that.

Hmmmm

I guess I was thinking you add the unit and it will display on its own. That's possible I'd wager but I guess it's probably not how the game is set up.

heh so you wanted us to build a game-building-CMS not just a game? hehe

As xinhuan says, it's a ton of work to do something like that; balance fixes, and slight perturbations are easier.


even *DELETING* a unit would take a ton of work =/

yea

Here's one... Stop fixing fluff that isn't broken!