In old Earth this used to be very NW biased. Against a guy with 0 spies, if you were going after a smaller or similar NW guy, you'd start off getting most thru, then after 50 or so you'd average 50% success. Against a much higher NW target, you'd start off with most thru, and by 50 in you'd find it almost impossible to get 1 thru.

There's way too much already on this thread, so many of my thoughts have probably been posted already.


Without the 2bil limit, farmer strat dies without another adjustment, and oiler weakens considerably. Both rely on people stocking them in order to be effective.

There'd have to be a large negative for keeping that much cash on hand to balance it somehow. Corruption is an interesting idea, but I don't know that it's enough. Now turning that up to say 5%, or even higher, may change things. Stockers are already used to losing 6% on buying and selling of goods, as well as price drops in between.

Another issue is that resellers still wouldn't be affected much. Perhaps an amount charged once a day on login as interest could be a better alternative than playing it by turn.