mechwarrior
Newbie
Reged: 11/27/05
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noob questions/comments on merc contracts
#121942 - 12/05/05 09:54 PM (70.20.60.22)
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Hi all, it's me again asking noob questions because I see things or am affected by things that make you say "what's up with that".
ok so my question is why is it allowed for an unfactioned low level empire to contract a high level merc so he can bypass the "no attack lower level than you" rule for a friend, ally or his other empire?
I know this game is only related to b-tech, but it makes no sense that a level 2 can have a defense contract with a level 6,7,8 or any high level player. it should be the opposite way arround, you should only be able to contract other mercs who are no more than equal level or lower than you in level. the way it is now, it opens up in my opinion abuse of new or low level players.
why should a level 2 be able to go around declaring war on any level 2 he wants and if the attacked level 2 decides to fight back, that level 7 player can now declare war on that level 2 and crush him like he never existed. how is this good for the game? this seems to unbalance the game and does not attract or keep new players in this game if others can do this. i would think neveron owners would want to keep the newer players to try and get them to donate money, not scare them away with this merc stuff.
in my opinion, mercs should be just that, mercs, not part of a faction. the merc class should be a benefit of being unfactioned and should not be allowed in factions. this would make more sense as an unfactioned player is basically a merc.
thanks for the look and comments if i'm mistaken.
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Kit_fox
Colonel
Reged: 09/16/02
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Re: noob questions/comments on merc contracts
[Re: mechwarrior]
#121955 - 12/06/05 02:50 AM (129.138.30.190)
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Ok, well here I go.
Question 1)
Well, for one reason there is a big disadvantage to the merc here. The merc empire cannot DoW anyone while he holds a defense contract, but others can still DoW him. That is part of the reason. At the same time the lower level empire has on his empire info page that he is protected by some merc, so if you want to attack that low level than you would need to have some friends ready to gang bang the merc.
Secondly the whole point of merc contracts is to be provided protection. If a level 5 will have a level 10 rush to his rescue during a war than there will be very few people willing to hit that level 5. In the grand scheme of things, defense contracts don't help as much as you might think for anything other than some empire X randomally deciding to attack some empire Y. In Fwar a smart faction will know how to get around a defense contract.
Now, that said, I think I should point things out. First I think you are right that if the other empire DoWed you first, the defense contract should not activate. Actually that sounds sort of like a bug so you may want to tell randy about it.
The other thing is that if someone DoW's you, you get the same DoW costs while his DoW is in place, so there is no need to DoW back. The only -real- point to DoWing back someone who DoWed you, is so that if the war lasts more than 3 days they cannot simply retract the DoW and cause costs to go back up. This is hardly a factor in low level war.
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