Monday, March 5, 2012

Tip#2 - Protecting your RBP (the cheesy way)

Protecting your Resource Bonus Planet (RBP) is a must! This apply especially to new Corps who went out of their way to get their very first RBP. As soon as the protection period has elapsed, anyone can take it back and down goes your Corps' ranking and your ability to generate more resources.

Skilled players will tell you that one of the ways to keep an RBP is to lodged fleets inside. The number of fleets will certainly depend on the level of the RBP itself, and how many ships players can set aside from their armadas. The level of the meteors and thors might also be upgraded to destroy incoming enemy fleets.

Screenshot of a Resource Bonus Planet (RBP)


One forum post at IGG tells a different way of protecting an RBP. While many players (including the poster) argued the unethical nature of such a technique, the method remains effective, if not, annoying. But then again, RBPs are supposedly 'for keeps' and there will always be ways to keep them no matter what players might say...

Here's the deal...

So I am watching a battle for a resource bonus planet and the losing team (defenders) sent 9 hours worth of decoy attacks from alt accounts to stall the resource bonus planet out so they can keep their resource bonus planet.


CHEESED. So the timer runs out and they keep the resource bonus planet, because they sent 9 hours of decoy attack.

Hey, IGG can you make it so the Resource Bonus Planet battle keeps going instead of finish the round and send all ships home? People play dirty and cheese with their alts, these guys are willing to stall 24 hours if they had to.

Better yet, have admins for your server to drop ban hammers. In any other game, exploiters get banned.
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Server 06 bootes zone 30 271,89.

Because the attackers were going to win and take the resource bonus planet, the defenders sent 9 hours worth of decoys from alternate accounts so they could keep their resource bonus planet.
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1000+ decoy fleets were used. It takes 1000 decoys to stall for 8 hours... this is 9 hours +

This is HotNoob's tactic that would make taking any resource bonus planet impossible and is therefor an exploit.
I copied and pasted the original post and changed nothing.

What you say about the technique is none of my business, and you may agree with this or not.

I would think any Corps with the ability to produce ships that can muster enough defense to keep it safe and absorb the time limit is fine. Is it unethical? This is supposed to be a game, and players are given enough freedom to think and plan their strategies...

War is said to be exploitative, and there have been many instances when people are not treated ' humanely'. Is that reason enough to reflect real life examples into something as mundane as this game? Perhaps not.



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