over the last year, i've often played a modestly aggressive game on the solo servers, modest in that i do grab widely, but only rarely take more than a single tap. never the less, i've run into players that seem to take actual offense that a peaceful netter such as themselves should ever be grabbed out of the blue by someone wanting their land. and i'm not referring to players that claim to be offended and respond disproportionately (a passive aggressive troll,) but players who respond with messages that express genuine disappointment to discover that they are playing a competitive strategy war game where something unpleasant has been done to their country by a competitor.

my first thought had been to offer up this [SUG] with a steaming cup of sarcasm, but as it rolled around it seemed less and less silly and more worthy to put forward for the community to choose to support it or to heap scorn upon the notion

the short version of the idea is to clone the express or primary server (or both) and disable the war room and the spy center

would anyone want to play on such a server?

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[bonus]

that server would be cashers and farmers and oilers (farmer-oiler hybrid) paradise and partially techers too and only 4 govts would be used.

this has been suggested occasionally past ~10 years.

another work around is returns for the grab, if country a is grabbing country b and country b military is 100% defense (all turrets) then returns would be cut in half, now if country b is all offense (all jets) returns are doubled, help the netters ruin the suiciders win win!

that wouldn't work.

cuz you is a suicider! truth comes out now >.>

not a suicider.

do you havea forum tracker on or something O.o

how did you guess?

actually its rss-reader.

:P

can you not just be normal and just see the last post on each forum board through the main forum page -_-

that's how i do it.

I'd play even if you took out attacks all together.

no war room and no spy room pretty much covers "no attacks"

without any attacks, the game becomes one of turn efficiency, market games, and mastery of stock/destock

no one needs spies, probably no indies, no one carries any mil nnits until near end of set

it would seem a strange exercise, but i would be curious about many things, so i think i'd give it a look

yet my gut says it would not hold my attention, and would never "get my blood up" like the current games do


tally so far, 1 vote yes, 1 vote curious

ps. i guess the info spy ops could be left available, and getting info on your competitors' market activity, relations and such could still be legitimate on the pacifist server

the pacifist server(s) could thus serve at least 3 purposes:

1) experienced players could explore the limits of various netting strats and twists

2) it would provide an arena for "super netters" to compete with each other without the "noise" of violence

3) it would provide a "safe" environment for newbies to learn the mechanics of the game without the constant thwack, thwack, thwack of land grabs most noobs face on the solo servers ... something like training wheels ...

and if both primary and express were cloned into pacifist versions, pacifist-express might be both a great laboratory for the experienced and a great training ground for noobs, while pacifist-primary would open new social avenues and provide noobs with exposure to a "long game"

:)

why not just go opposite take out the market and make only option to attack tack tacK!

if i remember rightly, express began as a no market, solo combat arena, but i think popular demand brought the market back quickly - the game just wasn't the game without the market. but my memories are very hazy.

personally i think you need the market to make the game interesting from a netting perspective

and there is always a long netting phase leading up to war, so perhaps a pure combat server could be created that starts everyone with big, prebuilt countries and war could begin immeadiately, but this thread is about pacifist netting so i won't digress any further

actually no public market was only in few express rounds and started on 4th.

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