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[pazuzu]

The pockets burn and the fleet hungers.

Ships and military cost a lot
with a 16k cash income just from tax, i still need 2 full time bank planet to sustain these paperweights.

The way i [guess] it, if i attack someone, i'll instantly get a minimum 4% corruption added to my already ludicrous corruption rate, and thats only for attacking the next biggest after The Don Bot, ie QeCHua or Orb.

now 4% of 16k is 600ish bucks less per turn, which will no doubt make me assign another useless bank planet, as the coffers already look pretty dry. -Plus- 4% of research and production. It'll hurt, considering this is only for taking out (or trying to) one of 27ish players, and if the fleet fails me, they'll surely gain an empire-wide morale boost of something crazy to add to everyone's already crazy rep scores.

Is this how it works for rep? does that bonus (say +5) reduce empire corruption by 5%? and by 5% i mean if you had 5% corruption, you now have 0%.

the wiki isn't very clear on the issue, can one of you guys with some rep hover over your corruption rate in the planet info screen to see if the tooltip shows a direct minus to your corruption?

Edit:
Don't get me wrong, i can see that 4% isn't really much, but if i attack 3 (of 27ish in lets face it, a galactic war game) players it'll quickly add up to 12% to ADD on to my crazy 20%+
attack 10 players? cant be done, i would completely cripple my economy.

[Akura]

According to the tooltip in the overview tab:
Corruption = 100 * atan(number-of-planets*0.025) / (PI/2) * (1.5 ^ ((reputation-25)/25) - 1)

Not that I can understand any of that.

[mattie2009]

I joined up to Sandbox galaxy 1, set up my governers (using the wiki's guidelines for help) and set up my research.

Now to see whether I failed or not.

[Zangi]

I'll be honest, I've stopped bothering to expand.  But, the good news is... my planet takeover fleets will be ready in a few days.

[mattie2009]

I met someone called Griffinblaze, who's been at the game for quite some time, seeing as his two colonies are at max population.

[Akura]

Sounds like someone inactive for a very long time.

[mattie2009]

He's rank 1... with two planets?

[Orb]

Fun times in Galaxy 106.


All war is breaking out with Virex, Jaybud, Akura and I. Since we are allied, anyone who attacks one of us attacks all of us, and we already have two actual declarations(one we declared), and with two potential declarations glaring us in the eye. 


On the other hand, I think I read that the reputation loss is less if your first attack takes out a lot of his firepower.

Also, if you defend your planet really well, your reputation skyrockets(look at hishburgger's).

"Edit" Here it is.

Please note that only the first battle in which you gain score (that is, hostile units are successfully destroyed) is used to compute reputation. We call this battle the “first significant battle”. All subsequent battles will not lose or gain you reputation anymore.

Please also note that a player only gains positive reputation if he destroyed at least half a percent of the enemies total physical power during a battle. The physical power is the combined number of ship- and PD-facility-units of that enemy.


■You gain reputation if you defend against an aggressor and manage to destroy hostile ships.

[pazuzu]

looks like i'm pretty much stuck defending, to avoid any rep loss. The real problem is, i don't think anyone is going to attack.

I was thinking maybe to just see if i can go out with a bang, like build a couple of uber fleets, and just wipe everyone's home systems, then any decent production systems/planets. I'd say most ppl would vote to end in that event. the rep loss would be crazy probably, but it'd give my fleets and infantry something to do other than suck my empire dry of it's cash. plus my score should get pretty high. Maybe i'm writing cheques that my fleets can't cash, but i'm pretty confident they would have no troubles.

If you 4 allied guys wanna have a crack, by all means, punch in like spacemarines.

Though i think The Don Bot's gonna punish you lot for taking that awesome production planet off him (and the other planet(s)).

Either way, vast fleets are being amassed all over the joint it seems, so serious war is going to break out soon enough.

[Orb]

looks like i'm pretty much stuck defending, to avoid any rep loss. The real problem is, i don't think anyone is going to attack.

I was thinking maybe to just see if i can go out with a bang, like build a couple of uber fleets, and just wipe everyone's home systems, then any decent production systems/planets. I'd say most ppl would vote to end in that event. the rep loss would be crazy probably, but it'd give my fleets and infantry something to do other than suck my empire dry of it's cash. plus my score should get pretty high. Maybe i'm writing cheques that my fleets can't cash, but i'm pretty confident they would have no troubles.

If you 4 allied guys wanna have a crack, by all means, punch in like spacemarines.

Though i think The Don Bot's gonna punish you lot for taking that awesome production planet off him (and the other planet(s)).

Either way, vast fleets are being amassed all over the joint it seems, so serious war is going to break out soon enough.

Awesome production planet? Oh, I thought those were just some useless worlds on the edge of his territories. Losing my fleet several times to conquer two now very useful planets makes me feel a bit better.

Anyway, we are way too busy to attack you. We are already starting to get on the defence.

[ductape]

Such big goals and bravado dashed against the rocks of inexperience...

Anyway, I have abandoned game 106. I was away a bit too long and found that without decent specialist governors that I could not tolerate the mico and/or have time to get to all my planets.

I bought the game, and signed up for game 108 and I am using the test bed galaxy to design some governors. This game is very nice.

BTW, my name in game 106 is Magus, feel free to take anything i have.

[Jay]

Anyone else feel that the reputation mechanic is a bit broken?
If you're the galaxy leader, you get punished severely if you attack anybody (that's not inactive).
It makes it turn into a bit of a stalemate if the others are afraid of you.

[Zangi]

Or just can't be bothered to go on the offensive.  Which, I'm at that stage.  Plus, not ready yet.

[Orb]

Anyone else feel that the reputation mechanic is a bit broken?
If you're the galaxy leader, you get punished severely if you attack anybody (that's not inactive).
It makes it turn into a bit of a stalemate if the others are afraid of you.

Well, its not a severe punishment. I mean, 4 extra corruption wont "destroy" you completly.


Also, I'm pretty sure in normal games, people would be attacking Pazuzu pretty quick. They want to win, and hes in the way. But, being the noobs we are, we are just attacking eachother while Pazuzu gains more and more score.

[Deadbeard]

Ductape, what's your name in 108?