Just thinking of a way to get that game more running into the style we want it to be.

How about we turn warfare rules a little more...... (the thought alone of me saying this horrifies me but here goes) Utopia alike.


I was thinking along these lines:

-Expand teams 8 - 10 players
-Extend the length of the sets (1.5 month ?)
-Teams have multiple options in their clan page. Let's call them political stances for now.



=====Political Stance 1: would be to Declare War=====-

You declare war on an ingame tag by filling their tag into a declare war box on your clan page. Your political status now becomes WAR. On the clan overview page every other tag can now see your political stance. Ofcourse the status of the other team now automatically gets changed to WAR aswell.
(so this would require an extra column in clan page for team server)

Declaring war would mean you are isolated from the outside world fighting your war.

Isolation meaning the following:
-Any country(untagged or tagged) but not @ war with your tag or the tag you are at with hitting a country in the war has a -50% offense penalty, -50% gains/results penalty. The same counts for spy/intell ops.
-Any hits countries in the war make outside of the war. Have -50% offense penalty and a -50% gains/results penalty.
-When a Team is @ War. No other team can declare war on that team.
-Being @ War takes away tax prices for goods(NOT TECHS) bought/sold on the market.
-War Status = 72 hours minimal.
-In Order to Keep war status, x hits need to be exchanged on daily basis. Otherwise both parties fall to neutral.


=====Political Stance 2: Ceasefire=====-

Ceasefire means both teams have come to an understanding and wish to ceasefire. This can only happen after being @ war for xxx Period of time.

Ceasing fire means both clans put their status on Ceasefire. Once that is done both teams will go into political status. Ceasefire. This status lasts for 48 hours after which a team will go back to neutral stance.


Being in Ceasefire status will mean the following:
- +25% defense bonus for 48 hours. To avoid being farmed by the other teams who have been growing during your war.
- +35% Income for 48 hours: This might be hard as we would have 5 different strats not sure if this is codeable. This way countries can grow back into decent shape in those 48 hours.
-When you are in Ceasefire status no other team can declare war on you during the 48 hours ceasefire.
-The Ceasefireing teams can not declare war on other teams for the 48 hours period of the ceasefire.


Room for adjustments:



This is likely the trickiest one. Along with the next one.


=====Political Stance 3: Surrender=====-


After 72 hours of warfare one of the teams can chose to surrender to the other. A team can only surrender when their Total Networth if 50% of the the opposing team or less!

-The team that has surrenderd. Will move to political stance: Surrenderd.
-The Team to whom they surrender too will move to Victorious status and gain 1 war win to their war Win total points on Clan page. (I see the war win stuff as optional we don't have to implement this - Victorious status however is needed!)
-Surrenderd status lasts for 72 hours.


Surrendering will mean the following:
- +50% defense bonus for 72 hours. To avoid being farmed by the other teams who have been growing during your war.
- +35% Income for 72 hours: This might be hard as we would have 5 different strats not sure if this is codeable. This way countries can grow back into decent shape in those 48 hours.
-When you are in Surrenderd status no other team can declare war on you during the 72 hours Surrender.
-The Surrendering Team can not declare war on or be declared on by anyone else for the duration of the surrender status.


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=====Political Stance 4: Force Surrender======

This stance can be used by a team whom is basically victorious, ready to move on but is fighting a team whom simply keeps anklebiting.
The wining team can force surrender on them.

-Forcing Surrender can only happen after 72 hours of War status.
-To be able to force surrender. The team being forced to surrender must be 35% of the forcing teams Total Networth or less.
-The forcing team moves to Victorious status. (Gains a war win if we decide to use that).
-The forced team moves to DEFEATED status.

--> See Victorious and DEFEATED status.

The reason I want to give DEFEATED status to teams that refuse to surrender after they've been beat is to promote surrendering when you're done thus short wars! DEFEATED will be a less bonusfull form of surrenderd status.



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=====Political Stance 5: Victorious======


The team has won the war. They get some extra's out of pillaging the lands of the enemy team.


A victorious team:

-Victorious status last 24 hours.
-Victorious teams gets a bonus of: "350M cash, 4M food, 300K oil and 1.5K land". These bonusses are given to every country in the team. A country gets it's bonus upon the first time it logs in after the team has moved to victorious status.
-Victorious teams can not be declared war on for the duration of their victorious status.
-Victorious teams can declare war on another team during the duration of their victorious status.


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=====Political Stance 6: DEFEATED======


Your team has refused to give up!. But ALAS the enemy forces were to overwhelming and you were forced to surrender.


A Defeated Team:

-Defeated status last 72 hours.
-Defeated teams have 20% defense bonus for the duration of their DEFEATED status.
+20% Income for 72 hours: This might be hard as we would have 5 different strats not sure if this is codeable. This way countries can grow back into decent shape in those 48 hours.
-When you are in defeated status no other team can declare war on you during for the duration of the status.
-When you are defeated you can not declare war on any other team for the duration of the status.



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I hope this all makes some sense.

It probally still has some bugs and iffy stuff in it. It's just a basic draft.

However this would avoid teams banding together and ganging up on others. Fair warfare for the teams and actually being able to gain something out of fighting a fair war and winning it, instead of the ridiculous the alliace with most teams beats everything.

I think this will emphasize the way we want team server to be played more.



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Oh and ofcourse after your political stance period ends you move back to neutral! :-P

it would be random as in, you make your country and it randomly puts you in a team

But 20 is almost as big as alot of alliances in alliance =/

8-12 we can try that.. groups of 4 for allies...

Basically, we're well aware that the team server team limit of 5 is being abused; however it's not easy to deal with that

...Are the admins still interested in fixing team?

~150 players server so answer is maybe quite obvious.