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Unread 3 Jul 2006, 20:21   #1
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Changes in the Alliance Score System

There has been a good debate on the forums and on IRC about the alliance score system.

Two things have come out of this, 1) The need for justifications for changes and 2) That any solution must not be abusable.

Theese are the reasons for a change in score system:

1) An alliance can in no way claim to have helped a planet gain the score it gained while in a different alliance, so an alliance should not get the score gained by planets while they were in other alliances.
2) An alliance should not be able to benefit significantly by swapping planets in and out of the tag as this is bypassing the alliance size limit, this is prevent by wiping the score the alliance gained from a planet when it leaves and by setting the "base score" such that an alliance cannot benefit by kicking planets when they are about to loose score.

We believe that a score system based around gain will more accuratly reflect which alliance is the best - not which alliance has the best planets at the end of the round. Some may say that this hurts alliances that recruit and grow over the course of the round, in short yes it will hurt their score - however that is fair as they cannot say that they were as strong over the whole of a round as thoose that did not need to recruit significantly.

The details of the new score system are:

The score that a planet contributes to an alliance is: current score - "base score"
where this contribution must be > 0

When a planet leaves an alliance the contribution the planet made to the alliance's score is removed.

When a planet is deleted from the game the contribution the planet made to the alliance's score is removed.

When a planet joins an alliance the "base score" that is used to calculate that planets contribution to the alliance score is the score the planet had when it was created OR if it has been in an alliance already the score it had when it left its last alliance.
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