Proposed planetwars changes

The clan requirement will certainly force more cohesive teams, but at the same time may discourage some people from playing. Of course, if there is an easy method of joining clans from the battleroom itself, that may not cost you enough players to matter. I'm not sure either way on the clan size limit.

I don't think subtracting IP from losers will really emphasize anything, it certainly won't encourage me to play and rather force me to consider the composition of each match much more closely. I don't believe that change will be beneficial.

I agree that reducing the impact of shadow influence will keep the galaxy more open, and in turn reduce the influence of the larger clans.

I think the Spoils Of War mechanic sounds promising, particularly if the Spoils are relative to the amount of time the previous owner has held the planet.

That seems like the right idea for defenses, though you need to ensure there are always enough dropships in circulation for even a losing clan to make an attack if they wish. Sending dropships in defense sounds good as well, as long as that is logged in both the general and planet event logs.

I think there may be work to do on the planetwars balance algo. Simply speaking, it kept setting up absurd games unbalanced both in player ability and in player count... a match with Google, Rafal and Maackey on one team of nine against a team of seven with Waldo is hardly a match at all. After two matches with this sort of balance (URFL + Others against DOOP + Others I assume?) half the players left the server, including most of the major clanned players.

Part of the problem is the clan composition, I understand playing with friends but some clans are simply too much better one for one to make clan conflicts very fun. I kinda hoped that in this incarnation of PW we would see the highest (Top 10) ELO players establishing independent clans and then drafting from the lower ranks, but instead we have a few clans with multiple Top 10 which are very difficult to best. I don't have an easy solution for that, besides more players.

Anyway, it might be good to weight ELO and team size more and clans less, at least it should yield better battles. The metagame will be awkward, though.

IP market needs fixing. Provide some stability by setting a base price that IP can be bought and sold at. Make this price very ineffective so players will seek each other out for a better deal.

Don't make PW clans only. That creates a barrier for entry for new players.

2 Levels of host could work. Make a casual host which allows any player and tries to make the games balanced. The other host could not allow non-clanned players and balance much more along the lines of alliances.

One thing I like about planetwars is that there will be a few people who are almost always on your team. With this in mind alliances should be less important on the casual host to try and keep clans together. This will also have less chance of stacking if clans do not increase in size.

The battles should be based on relevancy. Only the dropships belonging to clans that are currently waiting in the battleroom should contribute to the attack vote.

Building repair should not be instantaneous.

Problem with this is who will own defenses? If its owned then it can be too strong (if it attacks enemies).
IF its neutral should it attack any attacker? :)

Hmm yeah it could be based on current difference of IP values. It would make it closer to ELO system too.
Giving less IP for win for owners as owners increase gap from non owners is good idea.

I also want to remove IP defenses (replace with dropship defenses)

One other thing that would be nice....ok so i rejoined into a game and was watching it but it ended few moments after i got into it and i didnt know it ended yet. and when i closed that out they had already forced another game....and half the people on my team didnt even get in and they forced it ingame too and we lost cuz it was 1 v 4 cuz no one had a chance to do anything. u think its possible to add in like 1 or 2 min like grace persiod between battles so people cant just force it before anyone is ready

just a suggestion