The War College - Aries

The War College is an idea to introduce a new stepping stone to prepare players for my Battlegrounds idea and wars against players in general. The premise is that the existing wars against c3s to raise war level do not provide the necessary skills for pvp wars. The goals that I imagine, in detail, for War College are:

1. To learn pvp related skills including things like joining a federation, setting up a fed-assisted defenses, invading a country that resists with a 3-wing air response, setting up a depot, and so on. As many challenges as possible should be included.

2. To provide substantial rewards to graduates to provide players who complete the war college, both to provide incentive to complete it and to offer them the tools to compete with other graduates and other war players.

3. To strengthen the original intended purpose of the war levels system by automatically elevating players who complete the war college to the top or n

Aries said 6 days ago:

"The war engine is one of the best functioning elements of the entire game. To send the developers back to the drawing board with it in the face of multiple, more needy, areas of the game that could be enhanced would be silly. Don't be silly you silly billy."

War College does not change how wars are fought. You quoted my response to the idea of "removing the attack button" as the solution to motivating players to participate in wars. I still reject that idea. Why don't we stick with keeping things in context? Fair?

Idk it just seems like more artificial shit that the game doesn't need... If people don't want to play the war game that's fine they can have their main in secured but everyone else should be able to play the war game without being segregated by war levels which don't mean anything

It is unlikely war levels will be removed. That said, your view is not alone. I have the opportunity to speak to a few who cannot post to the forum. Xon thinks the idea is "kool" but would also prefer war levels and other protections be removed.

I think the best compromise is to do what is possible to have war players free of those protections while allowing war levels to serve their original purpose. I also think War College and Battlegrounds can create an upward mobility path to a new war player to acquire resources to eventually be able to compete with the small handful of players that currently dominate the PVP scene.

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In fact, if this is done right, any 5 players that fed up after completing the war college will be a legit force on any world.

You know, someone with the skills could set up a war game simulator. I've seen it done for other games. It's just an independent web site that allows you to set up initial conditions, then see what happens when you use different tactics, different units, different strengths, etc. - to play war games.

I like this, kind of like a war level fast track. It might not be every new player's cup of tea, but the large short-term rewards would probably encourage quite a few of the 'play fast, burn out fast' newbies to get involved (and receive a significant GC injection too).

That alone should create some excitement and raise the normality of war :-)

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