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Apr 21, 2010 Chaosis link
Hey I got an idea.

Buff the rewards by about 3x and make the winner of the week get 2x as many bots in their war convoys.
Apr 21, 2010 Dr. Lecter link
+7
Apr 21, 2010 tarenty link
+7.1
Apr 21, 2010 Kierky link
+1.8.124
Apr 21, 2010 Chaosis link
bunp
Apr 22, 2010 Kierky link
And also we need to have monetary rewards for killing the bots, not just delivering.
Apr 22, 2010 ladron link
Buff the rewards by about 3x and make the winner of the week get 2x as many bots in their war convoys.

Yes, definitely

And also we need to have monetary rewards for killing the bots, not just delivering.

Yes, but that's not as important.
Apr 23, 2010 Kierky link
Yes, but that's not as important.

Heh but if they're going to implement something that's CTC then they might as well do it as well.
Apr 23, 2010 ladron link
Heh but if they're going to implement something that's CTC then they might as well do it as well.

Okay, agreed. I don't imagine that could possibly be any more difficult than buffing the rewards, anyway.
Apr 23, 2010 tarenty link
This might work for the faction system a bit too... decrease other nation standing when you make a delivery?
Apr 23, 2010 Kierky link
This might work for the faction system a bit too... decrease other nation standing when you make a delivery?

Interesting, but I don't know if this would fit in to the dev's already planned faction system redux. I'd be all for it, especially when UIT takes part, however. Again, somehow not as important, but if they're going to implement something, I'd love to see this in there.
Apr 23, 2010 Chaosis link
Guys, keep it simple for now. Although I do think Nahin's and Estrian's idea here is a good one.
Apr 23, 2010 Ghost link
+500 bajillion

And people will CtC again... maybe.

P.S. Maybe in addition to or instead of 2x bots, they get a connie or HAC.
Apr 24, 2010 CrazySpence link
Yes making it impossible to destroy is the answer cause we've seen how people just jump at the opportunity to chase down capital ships already...
Apr 25, 2010 Ghost link
Thats the idea. Then the CtC reward becomes actually meaningful. Bots can be kited away and soloed in absurdly high numbers. Doubling the amount of bots sounds great, but it isn't really that great of an increase in force. A connie blockading a wormhole would be something actually worth CtCing for.

To do away with it, have the blockade leave after a certain amount of time or send an NPC teradon attack force out to break the blockade.
Apr 25, 2010 Alloh link
Make CtC convoys increasingly bigger and better defended, eventually adding capships and a full wings of SF.

Every CtC attacked results in next convoy increase. Each delivered harmless reduces escorts.
Apr 25, 2010 Chaosis link
"Make CtC convoys increasingly bigger and better defended, eventually adding capships and a full wings of SF.

Every CtC attacked results in next convoy increase. Each delivered harmless reduces escorts."

That's possibly not simple to do. That and its kinda silly to have freakin cappies defending xith.

Have you actually done ctc before, at all? The bots scale as the ammout of xith goes up, which is just fine by me.
Apr 26, 2010 Alloh link
I did with my main alt, to pay debts, and with national alts also.

That is where my idea came from, but CtC voys now does not escalate enough.

And it isn't 'just Xith', it is a war time critical resource used to build weapons! Cut the supply route time enough and you should start seeing more and more defenders. It's a war effort!
May 26, 2010 Chaosis link
bump because its relevant to current discussions
May 26, 2010 omnivore61 link
I like the idea of larger convoys and the escalation idea. Hopefully the four or five ideas surfacing now about CTC improvements will lead to something the devs can implement easily.