This is fine Ilona. I was just against Andrews post that said - "No oil will be given back, if you turn delayed squads, AFTER the first tick passes" Thats not fair. Today on M4 I set a delay for 2 ticks to attack this dude. I saw some more squads coming in, so the next tick, I reset my delay. If I am gonna be not given back oil for a DELAYED attack, which means the squad hasn't even left the outpost, I dont find that fair. I wouldn't find it fair, even if some oil is taken away for every tick passing until the delay ends. As long as squads are on delay, you gotta get back all the oil. The oil banking thing, is just something that is a side effect of this. But got talked about more

Anyway, to not be too discouraging, some of the updates have been really great. I noticed Michael reset the costly Energy costs for spies to the older limits, except adding spy pro using spies is 5 E costlier, which is no biggie. Secondly, spies have been made greatly powerful, and I am looking forward to some great strategic play in future eras. Will be a lotta fun.

Yes 100% agree that a 24 tick attack is outrageous ...
But we do not set it for an attack.. And i see it like this with it being said 50 ticks were not even enough at sometimes... Well this will just draw the game into longer eras...

Because besides 1 or 2 worlds that boost all through the era hard .. Most rely on the above argument to move around and get things done .. the longer an era the less a booster will boost , this helping it to drag on , now correct me if i'm wrong but the beginning of era's is what accumulates the most money.. !!! ...... eras will be sitting up on earth worlds waiting forever and months waiting for oil !!! This will not make them boost harder.. just my opinion !

I am not complaining about having less as such if everyone will have less. To me balance is when you reduce resources, but consequently reduce costs to keep things even. If you say increase gating E cost to max 10 per squad but keep the Energy production same, its not balance. Its done to force boosting. So right now, cost of launching 1 squad or gating 1 squad is same. Even though oil is restricted, you know that boosters can still build more. Now Andrews post suggested that you will lose oil EVEN for setting delays. And this somehow is supposed to bring balance. How is that possible? So if Andrews post was actually something that got implemented then, oil will be spent even for delays, but oil cant be saved and there will be no way to earn more oil. Only way is to buy.

But there are kids on this game that cant spend a lot. They will eventually find it outrageous to play. Also another thing to consider is people cherish the idea of more. As such launching 50 squads is more fun that launching 15 squads. People wanna have "stats" attached to their name, they even put it in their signatures. So that is something to be considered too. Restricting or limiting too much will also take away the fun in the game. I am sure even we folks who dont care about rank, power etc enjoy the idea of getting into a 500 squads battle and prefer it over fighting 50 squads.

Very well said Deadman.... as well agree with the spies... it will be certain to this as being another awesome strategy to the game everyone can have fun and benefit from.....

As my time in F4 is now over and I resume doing things that I actually enjoy doing, here is a recap of what I tried to prove during these first 60 ticks

1. Removing the resource trading for tokens within the alliance is not only a huge abuse and borderline illegal, but also does not solve anything. As a proof the Emergency cool down at 1 allowed me to cap 5 admins first 25 ticks

2. BD staff and especially Michael are completely out of touch with the game and how it is really played, so not only are they inept at understanding the mechanics and what to improve but also completely clueless as to what updates are really needed and wanted. As a proof i managed to kill all their armies again and againand they hardly moved for 60 ticks, built no radars and no gates and without Ilona would probably be now ranked last.

3. No amount of newbs can compensate for strategic play, and so when changes are made they should be vetted by the pros as they know the game and its balance best, and not influenced by what a mass of newbs suggests. As proof i capped four BDS4 members (gained 3 crystals in the process) and safely relocated despite numerous spy attacks, jams and strong activity on the part of the newbs.

4. Michael is a stubborn pig headed person who puts pride before the best interest of the game. As proof I offered to join BDSA and teach them how BD is really played on my own time and money, and he refused saying he wants to conquer me first. Even a 5 year old should know better

5. Hope dies last but in BD it is in a coma these days...the best proof is the lack of reaction and change that all of this will bring.

Conclusion: things will not change my themselves as the people running and administering BD now are not capable of improving by themselves...they need to be forced to or replaced. If you want a better game and believe in it...push them to the limit. No other way.

I did what i could and thought best...surely not nearly enough.

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A little bit off topic but... I couldn't help it

Ofc you couldn't. Or didn't.

As part of seeing the consequences of 1tick cooldown, we increased the emergency boosts up to 24 cooldown.

regarding 'banking' of oil, we're simply in a long process to lower the amount of squads per player so everyone will have less
thus less oil will be needed in combat.

and right now it may feel that '500 squads' is a lot.
but that's just a perception of the current situation.

once we lower squads across the board, people will feel that 50 or 100 is a lot.

This is not to 'force' people to boost, its simply to make gameplay less time consuming.

it will also increase the perceived value of a single unit, and resource boosts will actually feel cheaper as they give you more for the $.

we'll keep tweaking the numbers to bring BD to perfection. and all that's required is patience, as it is a long process of trial and error.

Don't tell me u're going to increase the price for the units