Threadbare wrote:
I've always thought that this would be a good idea... my own 0.02 -
War can be declared on one legion at a time.
Leaders of both legions must agree to be at war.
War lasts 48 hours from the moment both legions agree.
War can be cancelled early if Leaders of both legions agree.
There is a cool-down of 48 hours before another war can be declared.
During war the war, two new combat rules are in effect when you are dealing with a ship in the legion you are at war with:
1) You gain 10% more EXP for disabling that legion's ships.
2) You may gain badges for hacking, raiding, and disabling ships of the enemy legion who are more than 40% below your rank, if that ship performed an aggressive action against your ship.
Example of #2 - A level 100 ship is alerted and a level 900 ship attacks and disables - No Badge. But, a level 100 ship throws a disarming bomb at the level 900, who then attacks and disables - BADGE.
Finally, a count of all "war related" badges earned by both warring legions is done. If the battle goes the full 48 hours, the legion who earned the most badges gets a crate similar to base crates, called "War Spoils" that provides 4 hours worth of minerals, artifacts, and research.
Would tweak this a bit:
1. Would like to see it run for a week, not 48 hours. The latter is just enough for a flurry of action, before arties start to drain off and resolve starts to falter. Why not give the leaders options to select 48 hr/1 week/1 month?
2. I don't see the need for a 10% experience incentive. Bragging rights are reward enough. Besides, someone will figure a way to abuse it if there's an XP incentive.
3. I would count up actual disables/hacks/raids, not the number of badges. If I badge someone, then go on to zero them out, I would want the effort acknowledged in the calculations.
4. Again, I wouldn't bother with a reward for the winning side: this all about having a definitive mechanism to say who won the war, and again, people would just abuse a reward-based system.
5. I'd like to see a tab added to the legion diplomacy page, which records the outcomes of previous wars for all to see.
