I think we should give the current interest formula time. If it does not provide adequate incentives for HWs, and we see a large decrease in the resources held on HWs, then we can adjust interest formulas in a few months to provide for more income from interest.

The major concern I heard earlier from Filas previously was that interest was too high. With the effective ceiling on interest now, it is no longer enough to sit on a large pile of resources and just collect interest income, so you have to go out and capture and farm other planets to keep building up resources. The major concern he had with this change is that we would have many planets of 6 million to 8 million in defense, which is probably true. I have a few of those myself. He worries that newbies will not be able to take these, but I know from experience as a new player that a small HW can always either be taken or sold to someone else for resources as a target, and there will be many players who would love to find a system of 8 million defense HWs to use for target practice.

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"The major concern I heard earlier from Filas previously was that interest was too high."

yes, and because of that you made it even higher - it was 1% and now 2% I increased number of HWs to 22 this month and not increasing more just because of next round changes, but all of my non defensive res are distributed between these planets in small amounts, so I'm getting 2% from all non defensive res - it means instead of decreasing interest, you increased it

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Well, it is only increased for very small HWs, which are risky to keep. From the perspective of most players planets, which have larger than 1 million T&E to defend a HW, interest is lower due to maximum interest that can be earned of 20k income from interest per day per planet.

Most of the complaints, other than your voice of caution on this interest issue, are complaints that reductions in interest for large HWs are not good.

Since there are some who are saying interest is too low now (well, many actually) and a some who are saying interest is too high, this might mean that we are close to a reasonable balance or equilibrium point.

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