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Dirael Papier
Blackdust
Citex Alliance
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Posted - 2012.03.24 13:51:00 -
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gfldex wrote:Destiny Corrupted wrote:What about inactive accounts? How about chars online within the last week? That function is in game already, would be easy to implement.
^ I like that plan.
But yeah, if they only exclude trial accounts from the member count, that will do absolutely nothing to keep people from artificially boosting their corp count for a decshield.
Make tons of buddy trial accounts, each having PLEX as their reward. Recycle one PLEX to sub them all. Join them all to the corp. Eventually they'll all unsub, but they'll still be full-account members.
The minimum requirement for members that count towards war cost should be that they are currently subscribed, but this is exploitable as well.
Each account has 3 characters, so a corp requires each member to have their 2 spare characters in the corp as well. Thus the corp size is tripled at no spare cost, meaning a war dec costs about 3 times more.
Only counting members active in the last week however is interesting. Could still work around it (the above, except each member logs in all of their characters at least once per week) but this is kinda beyond what could reasonably be planned for.
TL;DR
At the minimum only CURRENTLY SUBSCRIBED accounts should count towards the defender's member count as far as war costs are concerned. Only discounting trial characters does nothing. Only counting characters active within the last week is an interesting idea as well. |
Dirael Papier
Blackdust
Citex Alliance
12
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Posted - 2012.03.24 14:20:00 -
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Alain Kinsella wrote:Dirael Papier wrote:
TL;DR
At the minimum only CURRENTLY SUBSCRIBED accounts should count towards the defender's member count as far as war costs are concerned.
He confirmed this at the end of QA.
The way I remember it is the concern voiced by the audience member was about non-subbed members counting towards war costs, but the presenter kept saying he liked the idea of not counting trial accounts.
From what I understand, it's hard for the presenters to hear some of the questions, so I think the war dec guy just heard the audience member ask about people making trials to boost the cost and didn't hear about unsubbed accounts boosting the cost, if that makes sense.
Basically, I think he confirmed that not counting trial accounts was a good concern and something they'd work on, but I don't think he considered the aspect of ANY unsubbed account boosting the cost. (trial or full account) |
Dirael Papier
Blackdust
Citex Alliance
12
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Posted - 2012.03.25 03:37:00 -
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Adunh Slavy wrote:Perhaps there may be some value in the shame tag for people joining a corp that is at war as well.
Wouldn't do anything to the aggressor, since they'd just be hopping between their own corps anyways so there's nobody to see their shame and go "eew we don't want this corp hopper in our corporation" and it won't prevent them from wardeccing in any way.
I dunno, I'd just prefer completely disabling a corp's ability to accept new members during a war.
For people leaving, Perhaps you can only leave to NPC corp from a corp at war (cannot join a player corp) and you have a tag on you of some sort that prevents you from joining a player corp for the duration that the war lasts. Might be overly harsh though and a terrible idea, I dunno. Perhaps individual players could make surrender offers to the deccing corp to have the tag removed. |
Dirael Papier
Blackdust
Citex Alliance
12
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Posted - 2012.03.25 05:51:00 -
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Poetic Stanziel wrote:Dirael Papier wrote:I dunno, I'd just prefer completely disabling a corp's ability to accept new members during a war. That would lead to an unbelievable amount of abuse. You could wardec the University continually and ensure that they could never recruit new members ever again. Whereas some of us might find that hilarious, it's not beneficial to the game overall.
Very true, hadn't really considered that.
Welp, no clue how one could deal with corp hopping then. vOv |
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