Scaling the contribution to War Effort

Posts : 82 Join date : 2013-05-17

I'm a relatively new player so please forgive me if I'm wrong here but it seems to me that the only way to make a meaningful contribution to the war effort is by joining as many battles as possible. Whilst I have nothing against this idea, after all those who are prepared to battle 24/7 deserve some credit, I think there should also be some way to increase a players contribution based on how much they've invested into resource production and research. Perhaps the number of flags contributed should not only be based on the type of battle but also the size of the armies (APs) committed to those battles. That way, there's actually a point to researching and developing the more advanced units.

Posts : 128 Join date : 2013-05-15 Location : In the mines

Size of armies can be increased by just sending more troops with more equipment though. Research does give fame however, could formulate an outcome based on AP and Fame.

Posts : 483 Join date : 2013-04-27

Gorlak wrote:: I'm a relatively new player so please forgive me if I'm wrong here but it seems to me that the only way to make a meaningful contribution to the war effort is by joining as many battles as possible. Whilst I have nothing against this idea, after all those who are prepared to battle 24/7 deserve some credit, I think there should also be some way to increase a players contribution based on how much they've invested into resource production and research. Perhaps the number of flags contributed should not only be based on the type of battle but also the size of the armies (APs) committed to those battles. That way, there's actually a point to researching and developing the more advanced units.

AP does affect it to an extent.

There seems to be two buckets (maybe more) where you get +1 CP on a victory. ~5 units or more will give you this +1 CP bonus.

Posts : 82 Join date : 2013-05-17

The more I play, the more I think something like this is necessary. I'm already getting bored and can see no real reason why I should continue the arduous process of upgrading stuff when it'll make little difference to my ability to influence the war effort. Since the PVE system balances out your army, I can see little point in getting to Heavy Infantry or beyond as things stand.

Posts : 483 Join date : 2013-04-27

This patch updated the CP contributions. They scale quite well with AP size now. I've seen up to 29 CP after a couple co op battles using 900ish AP armies so far. Its a nice change.

A quick follow up question for the devs -- What are the limits of CP rewards? Are they asymptotic limits?

Just to share some numbers:
29 from 930 AP in Co op.
36 from 930 AP in Nightmare.
33 from 1004 AP in Co op.
12 from 357 AP in Co op.

Posts : 3124 Join date : 2012-11-13

The ceiling is 99 Hegorn.

Posts : 483 Join date : 2013-04-27

Thanks for the info! Quite a lot of room to grow then.

Posts : 483 Join date : 2013-04-27

I hovered my mouse over the Capital army recently as it was returning from a battle.

"The Light Army has successfully attacked Region 38 and accumulated 895 CP for the light capital."

Thats a decently large chunk of CP. It had 67/87 LINF and 0 of everything else. Is that 67/87 units of LINF? Does that put the AP of the Light army somewhere in the order of 4500-9000?

Looking for insight into how the Capital army's CPs work.

Posts : 483 Join date : 2013-04-27

After a quick look at a relatively small set of CP numbers, they look linear (not asyptotic). It looks like a player would need just about 3100 AP to hit the cap of 99CP with Co Op matches. It will be lower for PvP or Nightmares.

I wonder if that is less than the max barracks limit on AP.