Where did the 16 country limit come from?

TCO_NBK

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Mar 12th 2024, 14:00:38

Before running 100+ countries in the past, I always felt 30-45 was comfortable... Why did we end up on 16?

Are there any plans to increase?

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Mar 12th 2024, 20:03:44

16 was close to the 15 limit that Earth had at the end..

no plans to change so far lol.

TCO_NBK

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Mar 12th 2024, 21:23:40

Yeah, 15 was just never quite enough :p

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Mar 12th 2024, 22:42:34

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Mar 17th 2024, 23:45:52

Originally posted by Bug:

16 was close to the 15 limit that Earth had at the end..

no plans to change so far lol.

I believe 16 was agreed upon due to self alliances vs the 15

not that 'we' followed the 15 anyways

nowdays I'm so lazy, 4 is a pain in the ass lol

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Mar 18th 2024, 13:58:13

yeah know that feeling all too well..

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Mar 18th 2024, 14:11:24

Depends, with basic strat and low NW war....they play easy :-)

Would never want to play 500 countries again though.

But pulling that up to 30-32 would be nice.

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Mar 18th 2024, 18:56:09

I made a setup, where I could run 300 countries in 20min once every 2 days way back then. It was hell to run them all in a war though.

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Mar 19th 2024, 1:44:38

Originally posted by Kill4Free:

I made a setup, where I could run 300 countries in 20min once every 2 days way back then. It was hell to run them all in a war though.

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Mar 21st 2024, 19:49:56

lol, dial up :p

rebelnbk

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Mar 21st 2024, 20:46:12

Hey Alex (and k4f and Demon).
They made you to come back?

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Mar 21st 2024, 21:00:44

Howdy Reb!

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Mar 21st 2024, 21:14:17

This could be changed if the majority of the community wants it to be a different number.

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Mar 22nd 2024, 0:03:16

Originally posted by rebelnbk:

Hey Alex (and k4f and Demon).
They made you to come back?

boo!

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TCO_NBK

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Mar 22nd 2024, 7:18:15

Originally posted by Slagpit:

This could be changed if the majority of the community wants it to be a different number.

Worth a try? A test set of 32 countries and see what the feedback is? Or is that difficult to change on the fly?

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Mar 22nd 2024, 22:09:02

ttt

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TCO_NBK

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Mar 25th 2024, 11:43:26

I still hope this happens ;-)

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Mar 25th 2024, 11:47:47

its not hard to change, but most people actually play less than the max amount..

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Mar 25th 2024, 12:38:33

Then if they are not playing the max amount right now, and they don't mind other players playing more than them, then logic would have me presume that tweaking the number higher would not offend the underplayers, and make the players that feel constrained happier?

TCO_NBK

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Mar 25th 2024, 15:10:38

It's always hard to tell what such changes bring. From what I have read on the forums and what has been posted recently, the mods are open to feedback. Trying it for one set and asking feedback towards the end, could easily help resolve the question. If no good and it causes people to leave, go back to 16. If people like it, can keep it.

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Mar 26th 2024, 19:31:17

Originally posted by TCO_NBK:

Originally posted by Slagpit:

This could be changed if the majority of the community wants it to be a different number.

Worth a try? A test set of 32 countries and see what the feedback is? Or is that difficult to change on the fly?

We couldn't change it during a round, but it's easy to change the number from round to round.

TCO_NBK

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Mar 26th 2024, 20:00:55

Yup, round to round is what I meant. Give it a try one round, have a debate on it towards the end of that round and see what the outcome is.

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Mar 28th 2024, 14:11:12

the downside is that would make for a lot of competition for bot farming

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Mar 30th 2024, 23:47:31

lets not forget the turn per hour drastically changed also removing the 'need' for more

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Mar 31st 2024, 2:20:11

who has the time to run 1000 countrys now TCO_NBK we are to last to run the 16 now right Crippler

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Apr 2nd 2024, 2:13:05

Way to overkill the thread Mob!

TCO_NBK

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Apr 2nd 2024, 3:33:25

Would never to a 1000 again :p

16 is easy now though...

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Apr 2nd 2024, 14:13:38

I guess the only relevant question is: would it increase the motivation of current players or would it destroy the motivation of the current players? And what are the lines and the trade offs?

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Apr 8th 2024, 15:03:00

Originally posted by smegma:

I guess the only relevant question is: would it increase the motivation of current players or would it destroy the motivation of the current players? And what are the lines and the trade offs?

True that. Been out the game for too long, so not sure what the answer to that is :-)