Its hard to put cost on such things and im afriad with such prices the system would owe to every player more than OD could produce..

How resources are distributed by technical means IS a social issue. #occupyzero-k

I propose another thing. Each player on a team should have a block button that would restrict metal flow to one of the team's players. The idea is that if A thinks B is wasting M on useless shit, he can mark B in player list to restrict his metal (or OD) quota. Math should be simple:

At the start each player has x[i]=N shares of metal income, where N is the number of players on a team.

If a player blocks i'th player, apply following math:
x[i] -= 1
Blocking another player cancels previous blocks (only 1 player can be blocked)

M income of i'th player is calculated based on formula:
income[i] = Total * x[i] / (sum(x))

Therefore, a player totally misbehaving will get about no metal at all (1/N^2 metal share, which is about 1/16'th for a 4 player team), and will therefore cause minimal harm to the team. On the other hand, he would still get some non-zero income through.

Social impact of that is obvious - if one is wasting M on useless shit at the back or suiciding units, the team can just deprive him of metal supply, reducing the harm caused, and forcing to reclaim (which is more productive then sitting at back and leeching M).

To limit the abuse capability of this system it would make sense to enable it only after 5 minutes ingame. Since the scaling is quadratic and not linear, 1-2 votes will not change your income dramatically anyway. And also, reclaim is yours 100%, so if you do not spend team's metal correctly you'll just have to stick to reclaiming (which promotes good gameplay).

another spr?ng... ban them all!

As one of the original spr?ng's, he is permitted.

Also, Epic God Mod.

you guys did not even read the math? a group of trolls can not block a good player, cuz they do not have significant number of votes. and if a troll blocks someone and that someone blocks the troll in return both of them will have less metal, but not significantly less. and as i said, reclaim is always yours.

Well Kitty, I've got something in mind, its not perfect but...

IMHO, usefulness/metal ratio on the units is a good indicator. Basically, the higher is the ratio, the more M you get. now usefulness U is defined as follows:

U = (enemy cost destroyed (how much all enemy units killed by player cost) + metal cost shared + total energy excess * overdrive conversion ratio) / (Metal spent)


Therefore if we define total team usefulness W=sum(U_i), we can calculate the per-player share as follows:
S_i = (U_i + C*W)/(W +N*C*W), where N is the number of players, and C=0.1 (to allow useless players build something at back)

This way energy tycoons get rewarded in the same way as players fighting at front, and reclaiming/sharing is also rewarded. Sitting at back and not doing anything useful will eventually leave you with almost no income at all.
In fact, assuming you deal no damage and OD is not running, N = 4,
when about 3000 metal is destroyed you will get S

0+300/(3000+1200)

0.76 metal income, which is just about what you deserve, while other 3 players (assuming they did 1K usefulness each) will get about S = 0.309 metal income share.

If you excess 50 E/s and OD rate is 110%, you will get about 5 usefulness/second income, which is equivalent to killing a 300 M unit every minute.(I am not certain it is enough though...)

If and when the player's M storage is full, his usefulness is assumed to be zero, so he gets a minimal share only. This is needed to stabilize the system so that the excess metal is not counted as actual usefulness.
Excess metal is distributed using the same system during next frame.

quote: If and when the player's M storage is full, his usefulness is assumed to be zero, so he gets a minimal share only. This is needed to stabilize the system so that the excess metal is not counted as actual usefulness.

So this is how useless players who make lots of storages will be perceived as useful...