lol if it game down to only game skills im not sure how good dogg is, its pretty much been proven him buying credits in all, its a feature of the game tho he just is able to use it, but as this shows respect dont come from points it comes from game play and forum actions

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Precisely.

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points is a matter of activity, resources AND skill/experience

we all know that LS has spent some time inactive whereas dogg hasnt

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I should say so:
Points is a matter of resources. Skills and activity is a very minor factor in points.
Resources is a matter of skills and activity. At least it should be.

A fact is that resources are not a matter of skills and activity. Money are involved here and we even don't know who buy their points - probably the only game without labels of "Premium member" and etc. We just can't trust points. Although we really should.

The same with interest. It disbalanced any competition as well. Those who where inactive got a significant advantage in creating points now against new players and those who were active before and made this game attractive. Just for what? Just for nothing. So where do we see skills and activity here?

As for watupdogg, you are just a bit too lazy to work with a calculator.

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ok so maybe it should announce it everytime someone gets credits


xxxxx has just bought xxx credits
xxxxx has just been awarded xxx credits

maybe that would make u all happy and hopefully shut u all up for a while no one seemed to care the last time u were all able to buy credits and lith players had the advantage for buying as they just needed to send a simple text message

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That is a good idea, the liths did not buy cred that directly translated to T they bought creds for planet upgrades and for probing upgrades, understandale because tey still have to keep the planets safe. Dogg out right buys T which is like buy a victory for the round or for his clan. Buying planet uprgades and buying Troops are completely different.

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RBA: check out Project Entropia for an example of a game that doesn't specially label donators ;P. And that's just off the top of my head.

Neggy: Either way, they were paying for an advantage over other players. I don't see any significant difference (especially since troops have prolly never been bought at the upper limit, which means all troops in the game were produced in the normal manner).

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You are not supposed to be able to buy points in a game. That is one of the reasons that Prof set the limit of planets at 50 so that people could not buy so many planets and just dominate over everyone every round. Well noone else in the game is buying troops at such a large quantity. No noob has escalated in that many points that fast since smartfox, and SF wasnt even a noob he had a HW. Point of the matter is we all want a balanced game, the game cannot be balanced if we have one person just buying troops, everytime we destroy his HW or kill his ships he says oh well and plugs in his credit card number. Filas did 18mil T dmage to him and he just brushed it aside. The only other person who could have done that is Prof and even he would have been pissed. 18mil T is not a cake walk but to people who buy troops it is.

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Hmm, just remembered another: Lusternia. Ofc, both share the common property of being RPGs, so there aren't any points as such. Anyway, I think SS' idea about the news entry makes the most sense of those I've seen, but I still don't really see a need for anything like it :/. May just be because I'm on the other side of the keyboard though ;P. (No, not literally, you can put your keyboard back down now... ).

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drugrunners, a game like this one, there is the option of buying credits but it cant give you an advantage over anyone too much and you can easily buy credits from players.

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