Allied DOW exploits

[unmerged(15472)]

I was playing in a Multiplayer game with 8 players. China joins the allies day 1. Now China DOWs portugal and all the allies are "at war" and have big CG drops. Also, China can DOW on Germany or Italy and France and UK get war as early as Feb 36. And, China takes the modest hit on Dissent. This clearly seems to be an "exploit" of the intent of the War Entry and "at war" consumer goods decrease.

 

[Maximilian I]

honestly, what should be done about it? you can`t program against every exploit in such a complex game...

the only thing I could imagine would be to not allow DoW`s against countries, which are not adjacent/within reach of 2 seazones. otoh, even this would still allow exploits.

 

[jdrou]

How about something like: non-democratic countries that join the Allies are subject to WE like democracies?

EDIT: Or maybe: Allies will kick you out instead of joining your war if you DoW in certain circumstances.

 

[Vulture]

Need more opinions on things like these. Preferably from both BETA and player side.

 

[unmerged(15472)]

ideas

It would seem simple enough to fix it so that no one in an alliance can DOW if ANYONE in the alliance is not at full 100% WE, and that countries not at full 100% WE can not join an alliance that is at war nor can a non 100% WE member offer alliance to a country at war. So, UK could not offer alliance or accept alliance from Nationalist while Nats are at war with Communist or any other country. I would also fix democracy countries like you did the USSR so that if they declare war they do not get the CG discount.

That is my ideas, seem easy enough to implement.

Regards,

Brindle

 

[unmerged(14078)]

KICK THEM!

If the Allies are not at war and a nondemocratic member of the Allies starts a war that nation will be kicked from the alliance.

Thus the Allies will not be at war and can't start a war before the warentry level of one of the democratic countries reach 100%.

I think this is very realistic. As it is now, Bhutan (paternal autocrat) is already part of the Allies and can start war with any nation on jan 1 1936. What would the commonwealth and france say about that???

Regards/
Klaus