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Unread 22 Jan 2007, 03:40   #51
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Re: zik dying 1:1 ???

I'm actually confused as to how you could actually play zik and keep a viable fleet.

The only thing I do know is that it will probably involve a lot of dists and having a bunch of friends/lackies to defend/escort you :\
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Unread 22 Jan 2007, 06:17   #52
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Re: zik dying 1:1 ???

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After 2 days sign up and looking around in galaxies, looks like the ziks emigrated to etd.

And as a sense of moral: Last round the PA team galaxy 1:1 (Yeah I know dont reveal coordinates..) started with around 60% ziks.
Now there are 0% zik and 58% etd (7/12).

With around 5% ziks the caths should be boosted and the xans suppressed.
Cath main dinner course is xans, and with lot less ziks usually going after them, specially ingal..
You would be incorrect.
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Re: zik dying 1:1 ???

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Well reading around and irc chat seems to show the general consensis on the matter is against the zik die/steal 1:1.

Ziks abit like playing poker.. you need skill and luck..
with the new changes its abit like taking cards away
general consensus isnt a validation of the truth of a statement, it only proves that the majority agrees on the statement
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Unread 22 Jan 2007, 13:12   #54
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Re: zik dying 1:1 ???

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general consensus isnt a validation of the truth of a statement, it only proves that the majority agrees on the statement
I think you're being a bit defensive here. He said he thought the general consensus was against the zik dying when they steal. Despite eneral consensus being the best validation of truth we have*, his statement doesn't really try to claim anything. He's not saying 'it's a bad idea', just that the people he speaks to are against it.

Why the implied argument is that it's bad and should be changed back, you're jumping to the conclusion that he's actually saying this as opposed to "I don't like it, my friends don't like it, I predict it's going to go bad, but you PAteam folks are in charge so let's see how it goes".

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Re: zik dying 1:1 ???

think if it were 1:2 it would be ok for some to play
bashed planet gets salvage and u still can gain value
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Re: zik dying 1:1 ???

Beta is still going on, you could try adjusting the stolen/killed ratio.
I recon somewhere between 1.5 : 1 and 2 : 1 would make it playable for ziks.
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Re: zik dying 1:1 ???

while i agree with zik's losing ships when they steal i do feel on a 1:1 basis is too harsh i agree with Gio2k that the ration should be adjusted
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Re: zik dying 1:1 ???

Imagine a zik having a big ammount of roids and and huge ammount of ship x anti-y (steal) and there is some greedy guy with type y attackfleet that really wants those roids. now he gets some multiaccount or friends with a freeaccounts sending shiptype y 1 tick before himself so that poor zik looses all his anti-y just by stealing ships and that guy can land 1 tick after....
will this happen aswell due to zik stealing/loosing 1:1?

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Re: zik dying 1:1 ???

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Beta is still going on, you could try adjusting the stolen/killed ratio.
I recon somewhere between 1.5 : 1 and 2 : 1 would make it playable for ziks.
Or you could shut up and try playing the game as it is designed.
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Re: zik dying 1:1 ???

I am not playing zik anyways. However, when a race is weakened to the point of being unplayable you will always get the inevitable mid round whine / hate threads.
On the other hand, what's the point of beta rounds, if it's not for testing the balance of races, now even more so than before, since we even got a new race.
I am in favor of ziks being brought down a couple of notches, i just don't want them being neutered like caths were in that round (14?). If in the end, it turns out that the best zik steal / die ratio is indeed 1:1, then at least you can say you tried other options in the beta.
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Unread 23 Jan 2007, 02:03   #61
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Re: zik dying 1:1 ???

It would appear Zikonians have fallen victim to a change in the way the games base structure works. Now that alliance score is going to be value based (Or so I am told) and with the fear of Zikonian fleet catches prevailing with the new cluster eta scheme. It is understandable that the PA team is seeking ways of plugging this new potential problem. However looking over the stats I have seen they have failed to undo the previous restrictions that Zikonians have endured in previous rounds as ways to restrain the power of stealing. I am referring to Zikonians not having a ship that can steal it’s own class of ship. With the new rules demanding a 1 to 1 value trade off Zikonians are going to need there roid fleets to have a chance at stealing ships that will continue to serve as exactly that a roid fleet. It will be crippling to attack someone and then steal ships that are next to useless to you because you have not stolen any of that classes pods to be able to use them effectively, all well lossing valuable ships from your attack fleet. It does not take a brain surgeon to see that this is fundamentally flawed. Early in the round it could be devastating to loss half your attack fleet on ships that are next to useless for you and your alliance. This means after each attack that nets ships your faced with a situation that’s more like having slept in and landed a horrible attack.

So in conclusion if the pod classes for Zikonians are going to be DE and CR for example then they should have a DE that steals DE or a CR that steals CR. The after deciding which pod class will have the self feeding ship the secondary class should have a ship that feeds the main pod fleet as well such as CR > DE or DE > CR. This would give Zikonians one decent effective roiding fleet that can self replenish after an attack and also allow the secondary roid fleet to grow the main fleet although at the same time becoming weak after a successful attack.

I think this would be a fair trade off to the 1 to 1 value rule.
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Unread 23 Jan 2007, 02:11   #62
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Re: zik dying 1:1 ???

The proposed change to the alliance ranking system has been reversed. It's still based on score.
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Re: zik dying 1:1 ???

Ahh well. Then I change my agrument. I want to steal ships again and not loss anything. I was trying to be nice but now I am pissed, whats the reason for the drastic change then.
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Re: zik dying 1:1 ???

It was either this or free strawberry jam for everyone and unfortunately the eastern United States strawberry crop has experienced a very harsh winter.
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Re: zik dying 1:1 ???

I don't like Jam and I def don't like stealers dying 1 to 1
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Re: zik dying 1:1 ???

nobody does. well some do. a couple of them. and they think so highly of themselves, that they are prepared to turn a blind eye to all the complaints received. and all the whining. and all the explaining. i suggest that our friends at ?PAteam?* doing the stats make this rounds stats by themselves, for themselves so they can have a great time playing against eachother for 2 months.

1:1 is just bad mkay? at least 1,5 if not 2 should be ok.

*edit: rumour had it the asc ppl did the stats. it would indeed be best not to assume rumours to be true. i stand corrected.
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Re: zik dying 1:1 ???

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It was either this or free strawberry jam for everyone and unfortunately the eastern United States strawberry crop has experienced a very harsh winter.
Thats a fashist lie. The winter has been very mild (at least until the recent ice storms). The strawberry crop has never been better. I say free jam for everyone and bring back the true advantage of zik.....stealing and not dying.
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LOL, god I love that guy.

I don't think the Zik changes are that bad. If they are intended to be a race to be played by very skillful people, and not everyone in general (as the guy from PAteam suggested, I don't know if this is the real goal or not) then it makes sense to make them harder. I know lots of people who make games 20 times more difficult on purpose.

For example, if anyone wants one, take Everquest 2. Some people will play it and never group, never buy weapons from a broker, never buy skill upgrades unless they find one randomly, fight only Heroic monsters if they can, and so on, carry all their gold on them so if they get PvPed they lose a lot of it.

Of course I know lots of people enjoyed playing Zik anyway, and I'm sure people still will. I'm just saying if the race really is intended to be played just by the ultra-skilled then this would be a move in the right direction, all else aside.
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Re: zik dying 1:1 ???

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nobody does. well some do. a couple of them. and they think so highly of themselves, that they are prepared to turn a blind eye to all the complaints received. and all the whining. and all the explaining.
Those of us who are happy with Ziks being "nerfed" don't feel he need to make posts saying how happy we are. That's the nature of forums - the majority of posts are made by the (few) people who are unhappy.

For the record, I feel that stealing has been a major problem for many rounds. It has encouraged bashing, farming (of inactives) and outright cheating. "Well played" to those who have finally decided to do something about it.
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Re: zik dying 1:1 ???

either comment on the whole post or dont comment at all.dont extract fragments to prove your point.
what i said wasnt that zik should be left as they were, but that 1:1 is bad. you do realise there is a difference don't you?
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Re: zik dying 1:1 ???

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nobody does. well some do. a couple of them. and they think so highly of themselves, that they are prepared to turn a blind eye to all the complaints received. and all the whining. and all the explaining. i suggest that our friends at "you know where" (hint: it starts with a and ends with scendancy) doing the stats make this rounds stats by themselves, for themselves so they can have a great time playing against eachother for 2 months.

1:1 is just bad mkay? at least 1,5 if not 2 should be ok.
This is so wrong. Most people in Ascendancy are not particularly pleased with the stats as they are. I think about 80% of Ascendancy members went Zik last round, and most of us were planning to do so again this round (Zik with proper stealing is simply more fun than any other race). We are the very last people who would suggest removing unlimited stealing. In fact, the stats changes have basically eliminated our preferred strategy.

Can you explain why you thought that we had anything to do with the stats?
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Re: zik dying 1:1 ???

He probably thinks we made zik suck, then at the last minute PAteam will change zik back and we'll be the only ziks enabling us to rule the universe. Either that or he's a muppet.
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yeah they had a nice chance against 15k cors what an average zik had
I don't remember much corsair def against me since I had several k tarants.
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Re: zik dying 1:1 ???

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I don't remember much corsair def against me since I had several k tarants.
Nope, they just defended against you with Bombers and Dragons instead
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Re: zik dying 1:1 ???

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I don't remember much corsair def against me since I had several k tarants.
I don't remember anyone landing tarants against my corsairs as I had some hundred thousand corsairs. The bigger fish theory. You didn't get roided much having invested a lot of your fleet into the rather inefficient tarantula?
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Re: zik dying 1:1 ???

Zik are shit with this new twist
I can see some people wanting to tone them down, but why kill ziks:s
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Re: zik dying 1:1 ???

well, have anyone seen new set of stats ? ziks actual kill power is termendous.
Much higher then that of a xan (almost twice). given, their init is 20 but they are scary now
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Re: zik dying 1:1 ???

Zik damage is... interesting. It makes attacking a Zik somewhat risky, because if any substantial number of Zik ships fire, your attack fleet is going to be cut to shreds. Of course, since Zik initiative is so high it should be possible for an attacker to clear out any possible defence before it fires, but it's certainly a risky proposition.
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either comment on the whole post or dont comment at all.dont extract fragments to prove your point.
what i said wasnt that zik should be left as they were, but that 1:1 is bad. you do realise there is a difference don't you?
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nobody does. well some do. a couple of them. and they think so highly of themselves, that they are prepared to turn a blind eye to all the complaints received. and all the whining. and all the explaining.
I also maintain that any stealing which results in value gain is open to abuse.
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I also maintain that any stealing which results in value gain is open to abuse.
MY GOD! HE'S FINALLY FIGURED IT OUT! IF YOU SUCCESSFULLY ATTACK OR DEFEND SOMEONE, YOU GO UP IN SCORE AND PROBABLY VALUE!





Isn't that the entire idea of Planetarion?
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LOL

Nice overreaction there.
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I also maintain that any stealing which results in value gain is open to abuse.
Maintain what you like. If you have any evidence of abuse, you can provide that evidence to the multihunters. I'm going to guess that your next post will involve explaining how you have already done so on numerous occasions and 'nothing was done about it', so I'll address that point now: there is 'abuse' which involves actual violation of the game rules, which the multihunters are normally quite strict about. Sure, they can't catch every cheat, but they do seem to catch most of them, and surely PA team can't base the game mechanics around the existence of a small, undetected number of alleged 'abusers', can they? A simple calculation can be made here: does the benefit had from removing an unquantified number of 'abusive' players from the game outweigh the cost of removing a legitimately enjoyable means of playing the game?

Of course, you may be employing an entirely different definition of the term 'abuse', one which more accurately refers to 'use of game features to gain an advantage', one such feature being stealing. By definition, this cannot really be 'abuse' if the features in question were being used within the rules, and the term is employed merely for its emotive qualities. I suspect that this is what you are referring to; you don't like stealing, because (I assume) you believe it to be unfair in some way, and are therefore prone to regard those playing Zik well as 'abusing' the game (by doing well via 'unfair' means).

By all means, criticise the past Zik stats for being overpowered if you believe that they were. But to say that the fact that some unidentified people might be cheating, and that justifies the removal of a game feature which plenty of people enjoy legitimately, is in my opinion entirely wrong.
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For the record, I feel that stealing has been a major problem for many rounds. It has encouraged bashing, farming (of inactives) and outright cheating. "Well played" to those who have finally decided to do something about it.
This was the point I made - I almost wish I hadn't bothered. I suppose I shouldn't have expected it to be well received in a thread which has been dominated by the pro-Zik faction.
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LOL

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Re: zik dying 1:1 ???

After a lot of deliberation, I am playing Zik this round (for the first time).

As to the allegations that Zik will be unblanced this round... well, that's just wrong. If anything, they'll be more balanced. This puts Ziks directly on par with the other races. When Terrans (for example) fire at an attacker, the attacker loses value while the Terrans neither gain nor lose. Now it's just working the same way for Ziks... they neither gain nor lose value by killing enemy ships. In fact, this is an added advantage for the Ziks. Because the ships that are lost will be the ATTACKERS ships, the defender will get less salvage than if you were killing his ships.

But isn't stealing supposed to be the Zik racial advantage? How is it an advantage now? Well, Ziks can get diverse fleets. The first thing I am going to do as Zik is build a lot of Buccs and start going after Cats who are just starting to build up a CR fleet. I'll lose Buccs, but roaches in the Zik CR fleet will make it a whole lot tougher than it currently is. If I am able to gain some of every type of DE and CR in the game, my roiding fleets are going to be very tough to deal with. Of course, Zik have always had that ability. So they keep their racial advantage.

But what about them still having such a high initiative? Two things make up for that. First, they steal before pods, so steal ships can actually function as effective defense, something that has never happened before. Second, the Zik efficiencies are crazy. They have the best D/C in the game, and an A/C second to only the Terrans. Look at the Bucc: A/C 63, D/C 75. That's crazy.

Ziks are really only going to be hurt in three ways. First, they can't get an exponential growth going for their fleets. That's good - that's balanced. Ziks always surged late-round with their massive stealing abilities, and that has been cut down. Second, FCs are less practical and less profitable. I'm a fan of that as well. I've always though FCs are pretty cheap, and besides, I am never awake at the time you would have to launch an FC. People can disagree with me on this one, but I don't think it's a bad change. And third, your fleet composition can get messed up with steals. If I capture a whole bunch of roaches by using ALL my Buccs, for example, I am out of anti-CR. And that's a bad thing. The solution to this one is just a bit of prudence in fleet composition and making sure you never put yourself in that kind of situation.

The final thing that's making me play Zik is that their fleet matches up well with most other fleets just in terms of what attacks what. It's not perfect - every race has its weaknesses, but looking at the ship stats, I'd much rather play Zik than, say, Xan.

It's not going to be easy, but I think I can get a pretty decent round out of Ziks this time. I guess we'll see.
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Re: zik dying 1:1 ???

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I'm rather worried about everyone presuming zik are totally shit now and getting more incoming than I can shake a stick at. Regardless I wouldn't advise it for a new player, at least until we see how it plays out.
By which time it will be round 21 and the stats will change yet again to something just as crap
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This was the point I made - I almost wish I hadn't bothered. I suppose I shouldn't have expected it to be well received in a thread which has been dominated by the pro-Zik faction.
So any playing style you dislike is 'abuse', and any disagreement with your point of view comes from a conspiratorial 'faction'...

Besides, if you think 'bashing' was bad in the past, I am very curious to know what effect you expect to see from the current stats. There are now zero-loss-before-firing stealing possibilities (for example, Rogues steal FI but not FI can fire at a Rogue). The damage efficiency is also way up on anything Zik (or any race) has had in the past. If you're unlucky enough to get into combat with a Zik, you're going to take heavy losses. Of course, the Zik will lose a lot too, and will probably want to avoid those risky, complex situations where they might end up stealing the wrong kind of ships. Best to stick to fleet catches and hitting inactives whose fleet composition can be more easily guaranteed...

I suspect that Zik will be a major factor in deterring large alliance battles, simply because they pack far too much of a punch for their cost. It is, to an extent, mutually assured destruction: the Zik loses as much as he gains, and more often than not will be left with a bunch of ships much less useful than the ones he started with, whilst the Zik's opponent will take horrendous losses. The ultimate result is that neither side is happy - the consequence of the 'levelling down' approach to 'balance'.
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Re: zik dying 1:1 ???

The one problem I'd have is that zik now get punished for being attacked by idiots. If somebody decides to suicide all his de onto my planet, I'm either going to have to let him get away with it or my thief fleet is going to get quartered. This is just me taking a slightly different approach to rob's last point.
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Re: zik dying 1:1 ???

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The one problem I'd have is that zik now get punished for being attacked by idiots. If somebody decides to suicide all his de onto my planet, I'm either going to have to let him get away with it or my thief fleet is going to get quartered. This is just me taking a slightly different approach to rob's last point.
you are right
now u need def where in past u said dont def me ill handle him alone
Zik now need a lot of more def than they used to get in past to "remove" the useless ships

stats are final now so here we go
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Re: zik dying 1:1 ???

iacta alea est.
let's see what comes from it.
i am eagerly waiting for JBG's views on the "leetness" of zik this round, how he will play it and make a "profit", or anybody else for that matter who plays zik and still manages to get a decent rank.

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Re: zik dying 1:1 ???

I guess I'm long overdue a post on this thread (especially as the round already started...)

Firstly, whilst technically Zik steal has a value loss 1:1 for the ships it's killing, in practice that's the upper limit. Careful Ziks can get near to a 2:1 value ratio (e.g. Marauder vs Xan Fr).

Steal works as follows:

(at each init) the steal damage for each class is calculated.

Each class is looped through checking for damage to that class.
If there's damage to the class, it finds all the targets in that class that can be fired at. For each target, it works out how many should be stolen, and allocates them to the relevant fleet.

Then it works out how much (value for value) the stealing ships of each fleet should die for this.

Then, once it's FINISHED all classes, it goes through the list of ships that should steal, and kills up to however many should be killed.


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This means that in combats with Illusions and Pirates on one side (Fleet A), and Rogues and Buccaneers on the other side (Fleet B), we have:

Rogues steal Illusions. Pirates steal Rogues. Bucs steal Pirates.
if you tweak the numbers, then all the Illusions get stolen, all the Rogues get stolen, all the Pirates get stolen, and the Bucs die because they were stealing.

This leaves Fleet A with Rogues and Fleet B with Illusions and Pirates (and maybe a few left over Bucs). Whichever fleet is defending gets salvage from the dead Bucs only (all the other ships were stolen, not killed).

This way, stealing "chains" on the same init only really lose out once.

Also, it means if you're stealing more value than you have then you don't lose at a 1:1 value ratio:

For example, a fleet of 10 Buccaneers steals 9 Tarantulas. 165k is stealing 252k, which is an extra 52% or so of it's value.


This is a bit confusing, and I apoligise, but the key idea is that all the stealing is worked out and the ships to die are noted down, and then almost after the stealing is occured, as many ships as possible die out of those that should (rounded down).

Because it's rounded down, in the beta we did see an "invincible rogue" that used to steal a few fighters and not die, because it didn't steal enough value to kill itself

Note: italics are changes from the original post because I mentioned the wrong fi
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Re: zik dying 1:1 ???

This isn't making any sense.

So, zikonians are stealing not 1:1 VALUE but 1:1 DAMAGE/ARMOR?

You know, this is the kind of shit you announce before the ticker starts.

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It still makes no sense.

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165k is stealing 252k
So, ships die at 1:1 value, ceteris paribus, it's impossible for 165k to steal > 165k, because 1*165k = 165k, not >165k. How can you steal more value if you die on rate of 1:1 value?
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Re: zik dying 1:1 ???

No, it dies at (up to) 1:1 value. If you take no / light losses, you can use the fact that Zik has in general a higher damage/cost than most ships do armour/cost to get a slight edge on that 1:1 value cost though.
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Re: zik dying 1:1 ???

Erm.

Uhm? If a ship costing 100k can steal worth 100k, and, when 100k has stolen 100k, it dies, what? Excuse me. You're not making any sense to me. So, if you have DAMAGE PER VALUE X, and your target has ARMOR PER VALUE 50, you get 200%? That's not stealing 1:1 value now is it? Because proportional damage and armor have little to do with real ship cost. For what I've read everywhere, it says

If you steal 100k resources worth tarantulas, 100k resources worth buccaneers die.
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Re: zik dying 1:1 ???

A beta battlereport of the invincible rogues. How does all this work in practise? In manual, it says 1:1 value (resource for resource).


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Re: zik dying 1:1 ???

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Re: zik dying 1:1 ???

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Nope, they just defended against you with Bombers and Dragons instead
Only got defended against with dragons on the last day when i suicided

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I don't remember anyone landing tarants against my corsairs as I had some hundred thousand corsairs. The bigger fish theory. You didn't get roided much having invested a lot of your fleet into the rather inefficient tarantula?
Welcome to stating the obvious 101.

There weren't many tarant fleets around so its hardly suprising none landed on you.

I was cat, you were zik. Unless you were utter shit, you had more value than I did.

Did I get roided much? No I went cath to avoid being picked first in target pickings and waved to death as a result.
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