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Originally Posted by Mzyxptlk
I'd apply it to scans as well. That might also be cause to consider changing them to show possible ranges of ship numbers, instead of a random guess in that range.
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these ranges could work with the current unit scans instead of them being some random value, with au still being specific - however, you can't really scan someone already unless you have more amps than their dists which makes me wonder who the variation will affect in this implementation?
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Originally Posted by Linkie
This basically forces every galaxy to have a high-amp planet. I'm not sure if that's a good thing.
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not necessarily. in recent rounds, there have been a declining number of high amp scanners because hardly anyone builds distorters cause of finance centers being the end all construction. personally, I could see some players taking full advantage of this, but most of your rank players would still build the finance centers first. then they would build either amps (so they can incoming scan / see real numbers) or distorters (to block people from incoming scanning them).
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Originally Posted by Mzyxptlk
Amps should probably only influence your own incomings, not other people's.
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they already do that in the form of incoming scans. if this modified only your incomings, it would essentially punish you further for not being online when you came under attack since the rest of the galaxy would see fake numbers.
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Originally Posted by Mzyxptlk
This suggestion can be combined with fixing the scanning tree as well, to encourage people to research some scans and get a reasonable number of amps.
There's a seed of a good idea here.
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i'm glad someone thinks so!
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Originally Posted by Kargool
I am uncertain if this is a good idea. It is again an idea that an active will get a bigger advantage than someone less active.
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how is that? and why shouldn't someone who is more active not have some strategic advantage? just because a player might be active, it does not mean that they would choose to build enough amps to offset this, therefore activity becomes a moot point.