Aug 8th 2013, 7:44:47
The NW Ratio penalty really needs to be removed. A country that is 12x the size won't be able to really kill off a suicider country without extreme losses. At the extreme end, every attack you make, you lose 27.7% of your attacking force per hit (364% of 8%).
Now consider you're doing say 1 BR hit on a country and the break is 110k jets to break 100k turrets. If the attacker loses 27.7% jets per hit, and the defender loses 5% turrets per hit, and the attacker ONLY sends the minimum break for every hit (+ 10% to account for the pang factor), then after 40 hits.
Attacker losses: 535k jets
Defender losses: 87.2k turrets
Old Attacker losses (flat 8% attacker loss): 154k jets
The break is 14.1k jets at this point, with the defender having 12.8k turrets.
This is problematic in that it now takes almost 6x the resources (if jets and turrets are equally priced on the market) to kill off a suicider that hovers at the bottom NW range. I haven't even factored in the oil cost yet.
Now consider you're doing say 1 BR hit on a country and the break is 110k jets to break 100k turrets. If the attacker loses 27.7% jets per hit, and the defender loses 5% turrets per hit, and the attacker ONLY sends the minimum break for every hit (+ 10% to account for the pang factor), then after 40 hits.
Attacker losses: 535k jets
Defender losses: 87.2k turrets
Old Attacker losses (flat 8% attacker loss): 154k jets
The break is 14.1k jets at this point, with the defender having 12.8k turrets.
This is problematic in that it now takes almost 6x the resources (if jets and turrets are equally priced on the market) to kill off a suicider that hovers at the bottom NW range. I haven't even factored in the oil cost yet.