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    Posted: 02 Dec 2013 at 07:04
Originally posted by Aral Aral wrote:

Originally posted by Darkwords Darkwords wrote:

All the ranks are pretty much meaningless, they can all be faked if you put your mind to it.

However I still like this idea.

Research rank can't be faked.  

Build a small city, send a bunch of books, do all the fast and cheap research.  Then siege the town and build a new one.  Rinse and repeat.

Why do you think The_Dude/El Jeffe is #1 and #2 in the research ratings?  He sieged himself out of the game a few years ago and had to replace a lot of cities.  Most of the top 20 are people who lost cities to siege and had to rebuild.
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1. Build a city and complete all research.

2. Raze the city.

3. do items 1 and 2 until you get bored. :))

it can be faked if you put your mind to it. :)
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Originally posted by Darkwords Darkwords wrote:

All the ranks are pretty much meaningless, they can all be faked if you put your mind to it.

However I still like this idea.

Research rank can't be faked.  
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All the ranks are pretty much meaningless, they can all be faked if you put your mind to it.

However I still like this idea.
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Originally posted by Alcie Alcie wrote:



I think it would be fun if there were alliance versions of the individual player ranks.

For example, if many people in an alliance had high trade ranks, the alliance could have an overall alliance high trade rank. There could also be a combined rank as with players.

As well as just being a fun way for different styles of alliances to try to improve themselves as a whole (for example trade-oriented alliances) it might also lead to some friendly non-military competition. For example, an alliance that wanted a high overall rank or many high individual ranks might suddenly have to switch some of its resources towards trade competitions or towards more land area, doing quests, etc.

I also think that it would be fun if individual players had land area ranks. Land area can correspond to military/wealth/production/etc. as well as population. Having more might not always be 'useful'... but neither are a lot of the other ranks such as quest.


Trade rank is unfortunately meaningless.  People can fake their numbers just by trading basic res back and forth between their alts... and a lot of people have.  Land rank would also be meaningless because you can only put buildings on twenty squares.  The game will let you claim more than a hundred sov squares but that would require you to waste a vast amount of gold and research points to maintain, cutting into your wealth and production for no benefit.
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I think it would be fun if there were alliance versions of the individual player ranks.

For example, if many people in an alliance had high trade ranks, the alliance could have an overall alliance high trade rank. There could also be a combined rank as with players.

As well as just being a fun way for different styles of alliances to try to improve themselves as a whole (for example trade-oriented alliances) it might also lead to some friendly non-military competition. For example, an alliance that wanted a high overall rank or many high individual ranks might suddenly have to switch some of its resources towards trade competitions or towards more land area, doing quests, etc.

I also think that it would be fun if individual players had land area ranks. Land area can correspond to military/wealth/production/etc. as well as population. Having more might not always be 'useful'... but neither are a lot of the other ranks such as quest.





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