Adriel Malakai
Shoulda Checked Local
Break-A-Wish Foundation
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Posted - 2012.03.29 17:23:00 -
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My biggest concern is that the defender can bring in unlimited allies at only the cost of what the allies want. While this works in subset of situations involving mercs, the reality is that a lot of people have actual allies who would join the war for free if possible. Not only that, I would bet that a good number of people (namely griefers and dec corps) would be willing to join these wars for free, so that they get tons of free decs, which has the ability to completely undermine the whole 'merc as a career path' thing.
Furthermore, not limiting the number of allies that a defender can bring in, either by strict limit or financially, makes it so that the aggressor can never make a calculated decision as to whether or not the war is actually worth their money. To address this, I'd like to see two things implemented as caveats of the ally system:
1) In addition to any contract between the defender and the ally (in terms of ISK), the defender must also pay an 'ally fee' equivalent to the dec fee the aggressor paid to bring in an allied entity. This price increases with the appropriate modifier (20m if defender is a corp, 50m if defender is an alliance) for every ally brought in. This has the handy side effect of adding more ISK sinks \o/
2) Put a strict limit on the number of allies a defender can bring into the war. I'm thinking three (3) is a pretty fair number.
In all honesty, I'd be happy if just the first suggestion was implemented, and the second would be cake. That's mostly because the first one implements the second in form of financial restrictions, which is honestly a better solution than a strict number, because it's more 'sandboxy.'
As a side note the idea of allies joining the war in less than 24 hours is pretty terrible. The biggest advantage of the 24-hour timer is that everyone gets a decent notification period that new entities are entering the war. Since you are, in essence, declaring a new on the aggressor for each of the allies, it is reasonable that they actually have fair warning. |