Resource system is broken when pushed back to WG.

[CutterJohn]

When I first heard about it, I was skeptical. Mainly since, as a self professed vehicle whore from PS1, I was unhappy that the play I preferred was getting a serious nerf in availability.

Right now, we're pushed back to the warpgate pretty much, both the VS and NC deciding we are better/easier opponents than each other. For the privilege of being the punching bag of two empires, we are earning:

+0 auraxium
+0 aircav/lightning resource
+15 tank/lib resource
+40 sundy/gal resource.

So no upgrades for tonight. No more skyguard for the forseeable future. I can pull a tank, but I better make sure it lasts an hour and forty minutes, because that is how long it is going to be before I could afford another one. But hey, I can pull a sundy every 25 minutes.

So basically, from this point, our empire is fighting, for the next couple hours, for no upgrades for the night. We have to make do with 1 tank every 90 minutes, or one lib every 2 hours. We are earning exactly zero towards aircav or lightnings(meaning 3/4 of our AA is gone.. relying on one armed AA MAXs and HA AA). Gals and sunderers we are slightly better on, but the enemy has so many vehicles to our none they last about 30s.

The resource system works fine when the factions each have pretty much the same, but when one empire gets pushed back, it just becomes pointless. You cannot take land with infantry in this game, and you're certainly not earning any auraxium for the upgrades you want/need.

At least in PS1, you could fall back to sanc and grab whatever you needed for free. Here, it is nearly impossible to push out. The only thing we can do is wait for the VS and NC to dissolve the ad hoc truce they had going.


How does this get fixed?

- Reduce resource gains from territory, add a respectable basic rate where you get at least 1 lightning or aircav every 20m, tank every 30, etc.

- implants to greatly reduce/eliminate the price of a single vehicle. You can always get your baby, in other words, but you cannot start spamming some other vehicle.

- Basic, no upgrade vehicles available for free from WG.

- other

what do you think?