World Republic farming policy

World Republic has a new farming policy:

Attacker must earn 1 million kuwal for each unit he loses.
This applies for all hits against World Republic members, as well as for all hits by World Republic members.

I think it is a bit early for such things, as most are still unwilling to hit actives... but I guess no harm no foul..

Maybe yes, however I prefer order and that's why I don't think it's a bad idea to have a farming policy.

My calculations are simple. People usually use RPGs, they cost 400.000 per unit. UU costs roughly 100k, training 200k, that's 300k, but only 50% of units die, 50% get wounded.

This adds up to 550.000 kuwal value per 1 casualty.
Now stealing at least 1 million for each 550.000 losses sounds fair to me.

If upgraded weapons will be used, it might grow to 600 or 700k per 1 million lost. Still acceptable value I believe.

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We reached a point when farming actives gives much more kuwal than farming inactives. Considering it costs 100-140 million to buy 10 AT
stealing 160 million from inactives leaves an attacker with little profit

160 million
-20x550.000=-11 million
AT cost = -120 million
TOTAL: 29 million profit

Now farming actives easily leads to 500 million kuwal stolen and 450 losses

500 million
-450x550.000=-248 million
AT cost = -120 million
TOTAL: 132 million profit

Seeing actives give a profit that is a multiple of a profit from an inactive, and also the fact that players tend to keep low defenses, farming actives seems like the only logical step to make.

I see you completely ignore the loss of UU you accept that could be placed in income and the income those units could be creating as well.

Below is my response to your farming policy


[17 Dec] 18:38 Keinutnai 403,728,258 Kuwal Stolen 10 200 806 5,259,505 3,406,259


Since we are playing a 3 month reset then there should be no need for any farming policies. In fact as this is the first actual round then I think all types of activities should be encouraged not discouraged so that we can ensure all bugs are eliminated

I agree with manleva, Though order is good, This is really just a test phase where every attack should be encouraged and making people worry about policies seems to be counter intuitive

Keinutnai wrote:My calculations are simple. People usually use RPGs, they cost 400.000 per unit. UU costs roughly 100k, training 200k, that's 300k, but only 50% of units die, 50% get wounded.

This adds up to 550.000 kuwal value per 1 casualty.
Now stealing at least 1 million for each 550.000 losses sounds fair to me.

If upgraded weapons will be used, it might grow to 600 or 700k per 1 million lost. Still acceptable value I believe.

I think you are ignoring the fact that weapons lost in no way resemble the amount of units lost. So the cost of 550,000 Kuwal per casualty is off. In my case it is too high.
You can see exactly how many Kuwal's worth of weapons you lost, though. So it would be simpeler to not assume an amount, but just add the total amount for weapons to the total amount for UU.
For myself I will give no exact rules. If you farm me it better be very profitable or you will lose your ability to farm me. It's a reset round after all.

Jiro wrote:

Keinutnai wrote:My calculations are simple. People usually use RPGs, they cost 400.000 per unit. UU costs roughly 100k, training 200k, that's 300k, but only 50% of units die, 50% get wounded.

This adds up to 550.000 kuwal value per 1 casualty.
Now stealing at least 1 million for each 550.000 losses sounds fair to me.

If upgraded weapons will be used, it might grow to 600 or 700k per 1 million lost. Still acceptable value I believe.

I think you are ignoring the fact that weapons lost in no way resemble the amount of units lost. So the cost of 550,000 Kuwal per casualty is off. In my case it is too high.
You can see exactly how many Kuwal's worth of weapons you lost, though. So it would be simpeler to not assume an amount, but just add the total amount for weapons to the total amount for UU.
For myself I will give no exact rules. If you farm me it better be very profitable or you will lose your ability to farm me. It's a reset round after all.

What do you consider very profitable?

I consider 1 million kuwal per 1 casualty profitable. but your way of explaining is extremely vague.