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Unread 12 May 2014, 23:52   #1
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Cluster Alliances

This havoc has presented an interesting potential path (once trodden!) to try for the game.

How would it be to remove exile function altogether, and only allow people to join a cluster alliance?

The idea behind this essentially is to force people to play with who they land up with - teach new players how to improve/learn the game, or suck.

Mix the community up a bit and avoid stagnation every round.

All the best players are being polarised into the best alliances so this would be an interesting wildcard that would make this game a lot more interesting each round.

I know people want to play with their friends, but something radical has to change if the game is to grow. I'd also like shorter rounds and also suggest adding anything which reduces the amount of time this game sucks up. Just a brain fart.

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Re: Cluster Alliances

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This havoc has presented an interesting potential path (once trodden!) to try for the game.

How would it be to remove exile function altogether, and only allow people to join a cluster alliance?

The idea behind this essentially is to force people to play with who they land up with - teach new players how to improve/learn the game, or suck.

Mix the community up a bit and avoid stagnation every round.

All the best players are being polarised into the best alliances so this would be an interesting wildcard that would make this game a lot more interesting each round.

I know people want to play with their friends, but something radical has to change if the game is to grow. I'd also like shorter rounds and also suggest adding anything which reduces the amount of time this game sucks up. Just a brain fart.

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I enjoyed events like the xmas rounds where you were in a cluster alliance and I got to mingle with folk I wouldn't meet if they weren't in my galaxy or alliance tag.

Havoc has been similar to this aswell.

IF the whole PA community was responsible This would be a good thing, However...

This would give the means out of tag defence and out of galaxy defence and would then create a demand for "Support Planets" That would then polute the quality of the playerbase you know the planets that never come on to the galaxy channel and mingle with your fellow galaxy mates... after all who wants inactive gal mates. Because one alliance has support planets this tends to create a keeping up with the jones mentality. (Round r15 vsh planets anyone?)
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Re: Cluster Alliances

I did not ever intend this to be a replacement for a real round setup.

Alliances are important communities of Planetarion and I can never see them being replaced for a full round.

I am planning on using it for part of the World Cup work and for some speed games in the future, but I would prefer both dynamics that force people to play with some people they don't know (i.e. galaxies) and also those they do choose to play with (i.e. alliances).

There is a question around if allowing cluster defence and -1 cluster ETA gain might work - but Paisley has mentioned that support planets will be an issue there, potentially.
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Re: Cluster Alliances

Well, what about trying a round where you remove the exile function? Because it just gets exploited and abused anyway.

Maybe new/returning players would be more likely to stay in the game if they werent insta-exiled
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Re: Cluster Alliances

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Well, what about trying a round where you remove the exile function? Because it just gets exploited and abused anyway.

Maybe new/returning players would be more likely to stay in the game if they werent insta-exiled
Or the opposite because they are stuck. Think last rounds exile changes already prooved the increase of dead weight galaxies.
From what i understand, there are no announced changes besides increased bp size.

Outcome: Same as last round, but probably even bigger gaps.

And i find it funny that some use the words exploited or abused. (or both in your case)
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Re: Cluster Alliances

Whys it funny? Its true.

It removes the random aspect, for some gals, and creates dead gals when the active people exiled out to find a favourable home.

If people HAD to stay where they land, they would have no choice if they wanted to win but to support and improve the 'dead-weight'
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Re: Cluster Alliances

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Whys it funny? Its true.

It removes the random aspect, for some gals, and creates dead gals when the active people exiled out to find a favourable home.

If people HAD to stay where they land, they would have no choice if they wanted to win but to support and improve the 'dead-weight'
You can't support or improve dead weight. Hence why they are called dead weight.
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Re: Cluster Alliances

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There is a question around if allowing cluster defence and -1 cluster ETA gain might work - but Paisley has mentioned that support planets will be an issue there, potentially.
It does annoy me alot that we can't have cluster alliances because they are some individuals who can't see in front of them how having "support planets" affects other people's gaming experience by having IRC inactive galaxy mates (I would also bet that the support planets wont defend Ingal)

Another point is ... Would you see "support planets" in the top tier galaxies?
I think not.
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Re: Cluster Alliances

Without knowing what your definition of support planet is... they are very much viable in a top gal, as long as the planet in question is active
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Without knowing what your definition of support planet is... they are very much viable in a top gal, as long as the planet in question is active
Hahahahaha could you picture the 9:8 gal of last round taking in a support planet?

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(Round r15 vsh planets anyone?)
I appreciate it you weren't playing in r15 so I'll go into more detail.

These were typically planets that built defensive fleets and didn't matter if they crashed defence or not in the same manor a normal player would do so.
The way the stats were that round there was demand to have pure vsh (fi class anti frig) support planets both from exil and 1up (keeping up with the jones mentality) this would also allow the actual players to launch fi fleet on attack instead of defending.
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Re: Cluster Alliances

We have had support planets in our gal plenty of times. All theyve done is sit on 2-3k roids with no ships and feed res to the gal, or covop and feed the res to the gal
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We have had support planets in our gal plenty of times. All theyve done is sit on 2-3k roids with no ships and feed res to the gal, or covop and feed the res to the gal
I Would call that an active gal mate who is contributing to a galaxy strategy also they would be on the gal channel
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Re: Cluster Alliances

Okay, so a support planet can not be in the gal chan of the gal he/she is residing in?
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Okay, so a support planet can not be in the gal chan of the gal he/she is residing in?
They typically dont appear on the gal channel. Pretty much the way I described a r15 vsh planet
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Re: Cluster Alliances

The only gal win i have had afaik, was when i was only playing like 1/3 of the round, and idled the 2/3 login every 3 day or so.
So eksero is right, but looking at all the changes in allie size/bp size etc its unlikely today.
The problem is that you cannot make such drastic changes as what connovar is suggesting without reworking the stats to suit such a setup, and everything else.
Just remove the tag rankings, and decide the winners like we did back in the golden days.
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Re: Cluster Alliances

Connovar if you wanted to make Exile removed it just dooms people from day 1. There's very little you can do if 4/7 of the people in your galaxy NEVER LOG INTO THE GAME more than 2h every 5 days. Yes they will eventually get kicked into c200 or other gals but then your only going to get new late-sign ups. So being stuck in that world you cant possibly have a good round.

Making cluster alliances come back would only make the winning gals stronger as they would now have another 50 planets to defwhore themselves.
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Re: Cluster Alliances

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I did not ever intend this to be a replacement for a real round setup.

Alliances are important communities of Planetarion and I can never see them being replaced for a full round.

I am planning on using it for part of the World Cup work and for some speed games in the future, but I would prefer both dynamics that force people to play with some people they don't know (i.e. galaxies) and also those they do choose to play with (i.e. alliances).

There is a question around if allowing cluster defence and -1 cluster ETA gain might work - but Paisley has mentioned that support planets will be an issue there, potentially.
i came to the forums to post something in this way... to ask why we dont have more eta -1 incluster..
cant we do a more elaborated research about it? support planet issue really makes the entire scenario be bad? imho the game gain a lot more options of politics and war tactics.
1 round can prove this, and will not ruin the future of the game.
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The problem is that you cannot make such drastic changes as what connovar is suggesting without reworking the stats to suit such a setup, and everything else.
Having Cluster alliances would make the Game More defensive in nature (an extra line of defence), It is likely that the 60 man Alliance rules will override cluster alliance rules ... I.E. don't defend against your own tag. Would the cluster alliances have attacks or would the alliance attacks take preference?

I can see cluster alliances is being just an extra line of defence and maybe an irc social club

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Making cluster alliances come back would only make the winning gals stronger as they would now have another 50 planets to defwhore themselves.
Its a good point, I'm not against defwhores receiving defence IF the defence is legit from an actual Player...
But not from a cousin account or "support planet" type planet.

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i came to the forums to post something in this way... to ask why we dont have more eta -1 incluster..
cant we do a more elaborated research about it? support planet issue really makes the entire scenario be bad? imho the game gain a lot more options of politics and war tactics.
1 round can prove this, and will not ruin the future of the game.
Worth a shout for 1 round trial... however I would have to ask that the Multi hunters impliment the "support planet rule" as per http://pirate.planetarion.com/showpo...13&postcount=1
And adapt it for cluster defence accordingly.

I suspect that nubs will get little benefit in comparison to rank and defwhores.
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Re: Cluster Alliances

Attacks barely land when we don't use overly offensive stats, so adding something that will game a lot more defensive is just the wrong way to look at things imo.

The suggestion like always will only benefit the dedicated and some few lucky galaxies.
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Re: Cluster Alliances

more players bigger tags before cluster alliances can come back
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Re: Cluster Alliances

Not only clusters alliances
Im looking for clusters big wars.
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i would say the game needs 4x its player base before we can think about that
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Re: Cluster Alliances

To be honest, Cluster Alliances will only work with a bigger player-base. Having Cluster Alliances with the current player-base will make landing even more difficult and will probably result in stagnation from an early stage of the round.

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Re: Cluster Alliances

I’m not sure if agree with you on this one Cloud’s.

I think cluster alliances would totally open up the game - currently stagnated with cliquey vets. If we bring back cluster alliances over the current alliance model, I think we would need to reintroduce higher buddy packs (let people still play with players of the same calibre/friendship group/whatever).

I’ve met some really nice people playing in havoc, people who I normally wouldn’t have had chance to meet and I’d be really keen to see the game adopt this as an approach – even just for one round.
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Re: Cluster Alliances

sigh, i have to agree with clouds
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Re: Cluster Alliances

How is the universe stagnated already, you have 60 man alliances that all have there own community, culture and fun. You don't think adding another 10x9(planets) to that for every planet will not just make it impossible to land on people. If you think alliances wont exists outside the game your misguided. You will be giving planets their alliance AND their Cluster to help them.

I wish people would stop this stupid idea and just move on to making better changes to this game to help promote activity.
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Re: Cluster Alliances

Cluster alliances are a great way to meet new people and to learn new tricks. There can be no doubt about that..

In my opinion going with only cluster alliances for a full round will bring a lot of problems..
It would depend on the exact implementation tho - as in: who can see what in the alliance.
Can everyone see all fleets? If yes then it only takes one person to ruin it for the cluster.. [by telling attackers / planets being attacked what all the fleets are]

What could be a better plan is to just allow defence by the cluster without any alliance forming.
If the galaxies in the cluster want to get organized and want to start defending then they can..
If you get incs then you will need to manually go talk to your cluster (IRC, MoC, ...) to find defence (similar to the xmas round) but this will reduce the amount of information that can be leaked to your attackers / to the planets you are attacking.

For havoc 'full' cluster alliances could be used.
There is only one problem with the current setup and that is that the number of active planets aren't evenly spread out in all the clusters..
If you happen to be in a cluster where only 5 planets are playing then havoc isn't really going to be a lot of fun since you will quicky loose all roids you stole...
Likewise if you are the only planet in a galaxy during havoc..

[There are solutions to this of course but I feel that's beyond the scope of this thread]
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How is the universe stagnated already, you have 60 man alliances that all have there own community, culture and fun. You don't think adding another 10x9(planets) to that for every planet will not just make it impossible to land on people. If you think alliances wont exists outside the game your misguided. You will be giving planets their alliance AND their Cluster to help them.

I wish people would stop this stupid idea and just move on to making better changes to this game to help promote activity.
Utopia u talking about.
Im trying something for now..
Anyway.. Seems like the members base its a true problem to -1 cluster.
At first i had the idea of ppl mass atacking a top alliance in cluster. Would be the opposite of stagnation
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What could be a better plan is to just allow defence by the cluster without any alliance forming. If the galaxies in the cluster want to get organized and want to start defending then they can..
If you get incs then you will need to manually go talk to your cluster (IRC, MoC, ...) to find defence (similar to the xmas round) but this will reduce the amount of information that can be leaked to your attackers / to the planets you are attacking.
The PA team cannot stop this. If a Cluster Alliance wants to cooperate together, they will.

What you (and others) struggle to comprehend is due to the small size of the Universe, Cluster Alliances will not work, and will probably make more people quit than we are experiencing already. Why? Because landing attacks will be next to impossible, with a third line of defence (Alliance, Cluster, Galaxy).

However, I do agree that Cluster Alliances will allow players to work with other players who they are not usually familiar with, and will help newer players mingle with the current Planetarion "core". But unfortunately, we need a bigger Universe for this to work.
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the idea of ppl mass atacking a top alliance in cluster. Would be the opposite of stagnation
If that happens then great.

What I suspect that will happen is Alliance HCs pulling up their members for not attacking on their raids (I.E. a lack of coverage) because they might be attacking with cluster alliance.

hence I'm sticking with what I said...

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I suspect that nubs will get little benefit in comparison to rank and defwhores.
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I’m not sure if agree with you on this one Cloud’s.

I think cluster alliances would totally open up the game - currently stagnated with cliquey vets. If we bring back cluster alliances over the current alliance model, I think we would need to reintroduce higher buddy packs (let people still play with players of the same calibre/friendship group/whatever).

I’ve met some really nice people playing in havoc, people who I normally wouldn’t have had chance to meet and I’d be really keen to see the game adopt this as an approach – even just for one round.
Unfortunately Veil05, Havoc is a completely different concept to the actual round. If you introduce Cluster Alliances on top of the Alliance model, all Cluster Alliances will offer is additional defence, which will make landing even more difficult (due to the current player-base size - already explained in a previous post).

In the today's PA (with the current player-base size), you will often see blocks forming just to land one alliance. Now, imagine what it would do to the game if these alliances have access to an additional line of defence.

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Re: Cluster Alliances

I would have to agree with many on here that cluster alliances would be a bad idea. For those who remember way back days when we had cluster travel times, the exact thing that Clouds and others describe, would happen. Even more def would happen. I forget what round exactly but I can remember myself gathering def from alliance and friends, cluster, then galaxy, in that order, in order to cover incs. Even then the uni was well over 10k planets. Try that now and you'd end up with 1/4 the uni deffing some planets every night.
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Unfortunately Veil05, Havoc is a completely different concept to the actual round. If you introduce Cluster Alliances on top of the Alliance model, all Cluster Alliances will offer is additional defence, which will make landing even more difficult (due to the current player-base size - already explained in a previous post).

In the today's PA (with the current player-base size), you will often see blocks forming just to land one alliance. Now, imagine what it will do to the game if these alliances have access to an additional line of defence.
I was thinking remove the entire current model and replace it with cluster alliances. Probably wouldn't work though.
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I was thinking remove the entire current model and replace it with cluster alliances. Probably wouldn't work though.
You can't remove something that doesn't rely on game mechanics to work ie. Alliances.

They exsist on irc primarily, it just that pa team acknowledge there existence in-game.
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You can't remove something that doesn't rely on game mechanics to work ie. Alliances.

They exsist on irc primarily, it just that pa team acknowledge there existence in-game.
But if you're not allowed to defend outside of cluster, what would the benefit be? It would affectively be a chat room.
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Re: Cluster Alliances

Because veil just because your not allowed to def because of in-game mechanics you can still attack together. So its possible to all out attack with alliance mates and use your cluster ally to defend you. As Kai said, they exist outside the game so even if you remove them from in-game they will still exist.
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Because veil just because your not allowed to def because of in-game mechanics you can still attack together. So its possible to all out attack with alliance mates and use your cluster ally to defend you. As Kai said, they exist outside the game so even if you remove them from in-game they will still exist.
But my original post was to Clouds, who said Alliance, Cluster and Galaxy would be defending. Im saying that doesnt have to be the case.

Anyway, like I said... it's a nice idea (despite it being heavily flawed).
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But my original post was to Clouds, who said Alliance, Cluster and Galaxy would be defending. Im saying that doesnt have to be the case.

Anyway, like I said... it's a nice idea (despite it being heavily flawed).
Let me expand the concept. In your game c1, c2 and c3 can join together and attack c4. Now even though c4 is friends with c5 and c6 they can't help c4 because people can't defend out of cluster in your game. On top of this you will have groups of friends in positions of power in different cluster helping to keep each other free of incs. So really for clusters to interact and counter cluster blocking you need to introduce cross cluster defence and then alliances can operate.

If you don't allow cross defying between clusters then the game becomes more of a bash fest than it is currently with no way to stem it.

The nature of game needs cross deffing, take it away and you ruin a big part of the interaction.
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havoc works because only 100 or so people play it
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Let me expand the concept. In your game c1, c2 and c3 can join together and attack c4. Now even though c4 is friends with c5 and c6 they can't help c4 because people can't defend out of cluster in your game. On top of this you will have groups of friends in positions of power in different cluster helping to keep each other free of incs. So really for clusters to interact and counter cluster blocking you need to introduce cross cluster defence and then alliances can operate.

If you don't allow cross defying between clusters then the game becomes more of a bash fest than it is currently with no way to stem it.

The nature of game needs cross deffing, take it away and you ruin a big part of the interaction.
Those are all fair points. I guess I'm just frustrated at the lack of new players that enter the game and holding onto any suggestion that could offer a resolve.

And yes, I realise havoc is a far cry from the real round.
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