Military Hack

[mattrus]

Basicly its the 5th in the "spy" category, Where by spy will show you the news of the spyed party, showing X sent # units to Attack/Defend Y but no unit specific details on the mob sent. My idea is the Military hack will Provide specifics on the outgoing military units of the player being hacked. An advance upon this concept could be a relative ioncreasing cost as the score of the hacked player increases. For instance, if you are looking to hack a player with score 100mil it will cost 100mil, where as hacking a player of 1bil will cost 1bil. Any suggestions on this more than welcome

 

[pinpower]

Personally i dont like it at all. Alot of the skill in the game is working out who is fake/real in defence or attacks.

This would mean high ranked players (with more funds ofc) would be able to tell what defenders had sent.

It would just be taking even more skill out of the game. So like i said, its a No in my opinion.

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[Scorpio]

Ain't gonna happen! As Pin said, it would remove a whole dimension from the game. When people are fast enough, they can know where the fakes and reals are..

+ people at the top would be overpowered as they have more money and lower score targets

Edit: Hmm I said nothing new, only half-read what pin said

 

[Maxi]

Fake attacks & defence are the basis of almost any attack or war... What are the reasons you think this is worth implementing, mattrus? Just to make it easier? I think it'd make both attacks and especially defence a lot harder.

 

[Alcibiades]

I don't like this idea i'm afraid for all the aforementioned reasons. If you make the 'deception' part of attacking/defending harder, all you'll be encouraging is brute force attacking since you can no longer even pretend to deceive your opponent.

As to an increasing cost for intel; it wouldn't work in the manner you propose, since for new starting players they'll be spending a disproportionate amount of their cash on intel (especially early game); and even later on, when i look for targets i might hack anywhere from 5-50 targets to find one i like. if my targets are all in the 2-3 bill score range, hacking and spying becomes a prohibitively expensive proposition; not to mention hacking for a resistance, or during defence. God forbid you should run out of funds when your ally suddenly gets 25 incs And i don't know about you, but i hack/spy people repeatedly when i'm attacking and when i have incoming.

The only way this would work is if the cost of your intel was related directly to your own score/income and not your target. But i would not like to see any idea of this sort implemented, intel is probably the one thing in this game i don't really think needs to be changed or altered in any way at the moment. There are a few other things more desperately needed, like addressing the entire balance/usefulness of the routes/units of the game