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Topic: Buildings being Razed in HC

Hmm, any thoughts on making this not happen?
It's HC if you lose your planets, you lose your planets.

I'm attacking the only person anywhere near me and I'm razing buildings.

If we're in a HC galaxy with no market, isn't it kinda beneficial to have the buildings stay?

I mean, I'm killing people with fleet to gain their infra:P

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Re: Buildings being Razed in HC

hit someone closer to your size and you can keep buildings

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Re: Buildings being Razed in HC

valcona that much is obvious. what he is saying, is to remove the 70% rule for HC only. it would be interesting indeed. i hit someone in their hs today, similar size but i destroyed infra for fear of retakes (especially the lasers since DS wasn't dead). removing the rule that buildings are lost would be cool.

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Re: Buildings being Razed in HC

well Flash,
the reason the rule exists is to discourage people from farming much smaller fams to get the infra.

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Re: Buildings being Razed in HC

Yea, but what they're saying is that in an hc round - all is game anyway.  Hitting smaller players is allowed.  Anything goes.


Having said that, i don't like the idea.  For me, it's tactical to choose targets that you may or may not keep the infra on.  That's part of the strategy involved, imo.

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Re: Buildings being Razed in HC

Well, in terms of tactical, im surrounded by people smaller than me, where I'm going to have a better infra etc, nearest person I can hit is about 9 ticks out.

It is HC,  if you had a slow start with bad infra, you're going to get killed anyway, why not allow other players who had a decent start take those planets and try to get somewhere.

Otherwise, what's the sense of me attacking this round when the 3 people around me are half my nw...

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Re: Buildings being Razed in HC

it could give more of an incentive to attack people, rather than people just infra whoring and staying in a small cluster of systems

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Re: Buildings being Razed in HC

Flash[light]ning wrote:

it could give more of an incentive to attack people, rather than people just infra whoring and staying in a small cluster of systems

kinda the problem im having =\
Thus ON has become kinda boring, I killed off 2 people early, now i just sit here.

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Re: Buildings being Razed in HC

Why don't you attack people above you?  They're not fully portalled.  If you just sit there and allow others who've been aggressive to gain the advantage, then obviously you're not going to win.

They took a chance to capture infra when they could and benefitted.  Now you should do the same.

Those people around you, are free planets.  Free planets = more space for your infra to be more efficient.  Planets also prevent you from getting killed off.

The incentive of attacking people is to win.  If you don't attack, you'll either be killed off, or knocked out cos you can't keep up with the planet counts.

If you're happy with just infrawhoring, then feel free to do so.  But at the end of the day, if you're not attacking, you're not gonna surpass the others in pcount and hence get eliminated.  It's up to you.

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