Strat ticks and alternatives.

[FRANK_THE_TANK]

Banner balance can result in long periods of one team getting huge x5 streaks.

This in and of itself is only a bit lame.

However when you realise that means that huge chunks of the time a whole time is getting no strat ticks while a clan is rolling the server and getting bastard loads...

Do you see what I'm getting at?

The more a large clan dominates the standard game the larger their already large troop recruitment rate gets. Their advantage of pure numbers is made larger by the fact that you could spend most of an afternoon getting pounded by them. They would get shit loads of ticks and you would get none.

x1 should provide .5 of a tick.

[ArysOakheart]

x1 should provide .5 of a tick.

Hear ye hear ye!

[cup457]

Ithink this is the wrong general discussion

[Butan]

Strat fuel cRPG and cRPG fuel Strat.

There is some bad scenarios but most of the time even a full banner stack is defeatable.



0 ticks on x1 is against leechers I guess.

[Bittersteel]

Leechers can get multiplier aswell, no? I mean, just standing there while the team wins time after time. Or don't you get it all when you haven't moved the mouse for 30 sec etc?

[Macropus]

Isn't anyone just having a shitloads of ticks all the time which has no use because the tick-usage speed is very low?
Last strat I ended up with 13k+ ticks, and I was a member of Ninja clan which is hardly a "bannerstacking" one.
Anyway, my point is - the income of ticks is very high which allows anyone to have enough of it while preventing too much abuse for multiaccounters.

[FRANK_THE_TANK]

Perhaps your right Macropus.

What I'm finding is though that I have to play anywhere from 1-3 hours to get a days worth of ticks and I just flat out don't have that kind of time to spend playing a game. 30-60 min I can do, but I've had it happen that I'll play for that long and gain pretty much zero which is always a risk.

It would be good if there was a guaranteed min rate of gain.

Another thing that could be added perhaps is being able to use ticks to reset cool down counters as a use, give a second force march etc

[imisshotmail]

Strategus ticks should be gained in strat battles as well as normal cRPG. The only reason ticks are a thing is to "stop" multiaccounting in strat, by making people play the game to grind troops. But strat battles are part of the game too, and some people only enjoy playing those and they have 0 ticks, it sucks.

[MURDERTRON]

Strategus ticks should be gained in strat battles as well as normal cRPG. The only reason ticks are a thing is to "stop" multiaccounting in strat, by making people play the game to grind troops. But strat battles are part of the game too, and some people only enjoy playing those and they have 0 ticks, it sucks.

Good post, you've earned 3 GFORCE points.

[Butan]

That would actually be a good way to boost applications to strategus battles, even the low-tickets low-chance ones 

[BlindGuy]

It seems OP has confused crpg/strat with a game in which balance is an aim.

Sorry Frank, wrong forums, balance is not a concern of anyones here.

[FRANK_THE_TANK]

Yeah it's not really about balance though. It's just about not making me grind hours of game play because I've got more interesting things to do, like women and boning them. Oh and collecting all the VDs, gotta catch em all poke your mum.

[KaMiKaZe_JoE]

The current ticket system is stupid. I have to play some other game in order to generate troops for Strat.

It's ham-fisted and makes literally no sense. Why are soldiers appearing in my army because I'm slaughtering people in some other game for x amount of time? It's just a lame excuse for me to play cRPG at this point, and has nothing to do with Strat: The Game: The Movie.  Troop production should be in some way related to the Strat map--even if just in the sense of RP--not random shit that occurs on the battle and siege servers. Shit, even tying it into forum, cRPG, and Strat renown would make more sense than tying troop production to how much time you sink into the battle server.

[Beat]

My understanding is that the system was originally put in place to stop people from ruing Strategus with dummy accounts.  I'm glad that they put a stop to or at least minimized this.

I also understand that this system helps to keep the cRPG servers full of people to kill, which both the devs and the community want.

The problem is that the system is based around the hardcore cRPG players and very punishing to people who have school, families, full time jobs, and other things they want to do with their lives.  The hardcore people will never have a problem with ticks, they are meaningless to them but the more casual players who love Strageus feel like they have to work hard at cRPG almost every day if they want to be fully involved in Strategus.

Surely there is some middle ground between these two types of players and a system that works for everyone.

[KaMiKaZe_JoE]

I once suggested, part in jest, that the devs tie all the various sources of renown together--forums, cRPG, and Start and fucking whatever else--and you get ticks based off of a nice renown-infamy proportion. Well respected individuals get better at attracting armies. "Respect" is earned by battlefield glory and artful shitposting.