Possible way to take the sting out of defending attacks

LadyKaeleer

We all agree, getting hit sucks. Losing army, having to rebuild, not getting protection when we successfully defend, losing so much time and effort.

If there was a way to work in battlefield recovery/looting. Some (not all) weapons and armor from fallen attackers and defenders are recovered and returned to the armory or broken down into their resource components, that might help ease the pain of defending, without messing with protection times/qualifications any.
Hell, it could be a new tech tree.

Just something that popped into my head at the totally healthy hour of 2am.

xiAo-Shin Star

LadyKaeleer
Totally Great idea!.. This makes the winner harbor everything in the loser. All the leftovers should be taken by the defender of course.

Lord Thane

Ohhhh, I really like this idea! It's not such a big buff to really unbalanced anything, but is a healthy bit of aid for the defender to rebuild.

On the flip side, when winning an attack we could give the same benefit to the attacker, let them recover some armory.

Winner gets the spoils!

Sun Tzu

Lord Thane

Yes do it, will make my gnome KD OP lets goooooo!

LadyKaeleer

Lord Thane if the attacker does recover some of the arms and armor from their fallen soldiers, it would have to be a lesser percentage than the defender. Or defenders get arms/armor/resources from broken pieces left behind. Attackers already get the production increases that come from gaining land/buildings/population, so they don't want to carry the wood and iron back with them.

Eri

Lord Thane great idea but it would help the winner and let say someone is bigger attacking d smaller one an easy rebuild.. how can a smaller can catch up with that if its happen.. mybe its a good idea but maybe after 24hrs the armory will be back not same time the attack or the defend happen

Lord Thane

Sun Tzu to prevent gnomes from being too OP, we will give special armory CLI that puts gnomes armories in protection for 24 hours before they can build more weapons, lol 😉

I think something like 25% recovery wouldn't be too bad, what's the harm?

Blahblah

I've actually suggested this idea in other games. If you do do it as a tree. Tech, I would do things, simple numbers. Here, ten percent, twenty percent, thirty percent, forty percent, fifty percent. Ten percent for each tree level. I would make it those percent for the winner. The loser, it would only get in half of whatever the percentages for whatever treat tech level, they are on..

Blahblah

Blahblah or you could even make it racial or lithar

Lord Thane

Blahblah good ideas, but I think the loser shouldn't get anything. How are they recovering anything from the battle when they lost/ran away?

Blahblah

Lord Thane i don't disagree with you on the loser, not getting anything, but I don't kn, then comes to the point of why even put them in there at all. Maybe just make this another thing, thief ability for when you get espionage up and running? Steal weapons from your own race, destroy weapons from another

Blahblah

Blahblah you could also, make it that your thieves, if you have them go on to the battlefield. And scrounge up some of these weapons and armors for you

Blahblah

LadyKaeleer why would a defender get the better spoils of war? They lost, they would be kicked from the field. They would either get a lesser percentage or nothing.

LadyKaeleer

Blahblah mostly because it's their fields the dead are lying on. Who else is cleaning up the corpses and damaged weapons? Not the attackers as they return to their own lands.

LadyKaeleer

My apologies, it's now 4am and my reading comprehension/overall language skills are dwindling.

My thoughts were along these lines:

Attackers get a fair but small percentage of weapons and armor recovered on a successful attack, no resources; they are traveling, not condusive to hauling wood & iron.
Successful defense against an attack rewards you with recovered weapons, armor, and the bonus of wood/iron recovered from damaged weapons/armor to use to either make more weapons of war, or sink into buildings.

Nolio

I think it's a really cool idea! Though I agree with the side of just make it a recovery tech, then you recover X% per tech of the weapons you lost

Blahblah

To the victor goes the bigger % of spoils.

King Haybol

I like the idea, but I don't think it should be implemented. I still believe players should have the ability to store armories, prepare for battle, and adapt to the current game mechanics. I prefer the challenge of encountering difficulties and strategically managing them to emerge stronger, as that's what a strategic game is all about. 😊😊😊

trupheus

King Haybol

So what I’m reading is that this would take some of the benefit you get from running half the games accounts? lol. Will this joke never end?

Ok really though I like the idea from the viewpoint of it does help make battle a little less costly. I think something needs to be done to make it faster paced. This might help.

Lord Thane

trupheus Will this joke never end?

Just you wait... Haybol is going to be made very famous soon 😈

King Haybol

trupheus 😅😅😅

trupheus

Lord Thane

Oh do tell.