Ought to prevent Bots from going too deep into DR and discourage Party-poopers from distracting the netters?

so like tourny but no cost?

Yes.

How?

Netters can join GDI already you know.

More options are better than less.

What is this so called "free" GDI anyway? It makes no difference. Just a pointless talking point. It reminds me of "raise minimum wage to improve the economy" argument, when all it does is lead to less demand for workers so less people become employed. It's circular and it's zero sum.

Those that want to join GDI, can already do so. Those that want free GDI, can do so after saving bonus points. Everybody gets an even playing field. If it costs you X amount of resources because of GDI, well guess what, it costs that much for everybody else too. What's the difference? The key is nobody gets additional benefits. That's the most important.

And finally, you can go no GDI if you want. At your own risk of course. There's that option too.

bonuspoints aren't that much used in express so spending 16 pts to free gdi isn't big thing.

I meant permanent free GDI for all, that way everyone is equal.

Everyone starts equal, it's just that some are then too stupid to join the GDI.

Even more reason to implement permanent GDI for humans and AI's :P

That's a socialist move. Forcing people to do XYZ.

Your entire idea behind the merits of 'permanent free GDI' seems to hinge on the fact that you become forgetful to join. If people remember to click join GDI at the start, then what difference does it make?

Again, since GDI costs are applied to everybody, it makes no difference. Its like reducing everybody's explore rate by 10%. Who cares, everybody gets hit. So that argument is moot for why GDI has to be 'free'.

Even playing field. So it doesn't matter. The only question now is remembering to join GDI.

Au contraire, I have never forgotten to join free GDI. Anyways, I am definitely curious on your thoughts on how to improve the playing field and attracting new players to EE.

Btw cronie, how about giving GDI to bots? Or would that disrupt the playing field as well?

Attracting new players? I don't know, maybe via advertising? Word of mouth? Honestly, this is a text based game. I assume its mostly only old timers who's had internet in the 2000s that are still here playing an 'obsolete' game. Nowadays, the instagram selfie loving gen Z crowd, I'd assume, are not attracted to games of this sort.

The lack of players has nothing to do with GDI though, much less lack of free GDI which is what this topic is about.

Who cares if bots have GDI.

The only thing it does is maybe throw some bot farmers off in terms of bot hunting. But still, who cares?

Nobody, even the most bored of trolls, will bother KRing bots. Much more fun is derived KRing humans to troll them I'd assume. Bots don't need GDI. Bots are also there to be farmed to keep the heat off other humans, which is the driver for why people tend to get butthurt around here when they get LGed or multi tapped. So actually, putting GDI on bots, making it harder to bot farm, is actually detrimental to player count in that sense as the LG and multitap of humans will drive even existing players away.

The idea of adding GDI to bots seem to counter your objective of increasing or really, retaining, player numbers.

just give free tanks to those that don't join GDI.