Penalize fed parking and bring more variety into weapon use

Ardbeg · Post by **Ardbeg** » Fri Feb 09, 2007 7:03 pm

The alliance wait period discussion made me think of a possible way to kill 2 birds with one stone - penalize fed parkers while at the same time encouraging the use of a larger variety of the weapons available. The suggestion is simple - after you have sold a weapon, you cannot buy that same weapon until you have used 500 turns.

Cowboy · Post by **Cowboy** » Fri Feb 09, 2007 7:11 pm

Yes i would like to see warbirds parked at fed penalized....the weapon idea has good points and bad points, a good point is that it would keep races at war to hold good weapons for their race, a bad point is that there just isn't that many good weapons on the weapon list. Perhaps if we had a coder and some new weapon ideas this would be a better option.

JettJackson · Post by **JettJackson** » Fri Feb 09, 2007 7:17 pm

i think this is a bad idea, what would happen with a planet busm you cant use your level 5 again. i mean it would make busts pretty pointless, cus you better hope you dont die

Ardbeg · Post by **Ardbeg** » Fri Feb 09, 2007 7:19 pm

There is no penalty for losing your weapon by dying, only by selling.

JettJackson · Post by **JettJackson** » Fri Feb 09, 2007 7:22 pm

ok that would make early hunting irrational

Ardbeg · Post by **Ardbeg** » Fri Feb 09, 2007 7:31 pm

It would make early hunting harder - not necessarily a bad thing, since early hunting is basically the well-organized & well-financed big alliances beating up the little guys.

It would also make those hunters use different weapons - definitely a good thing IMO. It would be nice to see under-appreciated weapons like the CSS and the ASF get used more.

The only big problem I see is the huge boost it would give to Ikky.

JettJackson · Post by **JettJackson** » Fri Feb 09, 2007 7:44 pm

which ikky doesnt need, they are fine as is, lets not make them even better

Ardbeg · Post by **Ardbeg** » Fri Feb 09, 2007 7:47 pm

STEBO48858 wrote:which ikky doesnt need, they are fine as is, lets not make them even better

There would be ways to deal with that, like not allowing CD's to be dropped in racials (which there is no good reason to do anyway).

Infinity · Post by **Infinity** » Fri Feb 09, 2007 10:36 pm

This is gonna get deleted, I can feel it...

Why not suggest something constructive?

Thennian · Post by **Thennian** » Fri Feb 09, 2007 10:39 pm

why would it get deleted.

its an interesting idea. I want to see how this pans out first before i weigh in