Fri Dec 25, 2009 6:33 pm by Baka
then the spy would just be sitting around eating up food. it's not a good solution. I think spy "should" die in attacks and you should always get a report. the only time you don't get a report if there are no defensive spies around at all. if there are no surviving defender spies the "from" would be unknown and you get a report like "We found unknown spies." If there are surviving spies, you'd get a report with something like "Spies were found from Pr3t3nd3r" or something. this can also be played with maybe a randomness along with the lower the surviving spy count, the less the chance of knowing who sent the spies.
also, your example makes no sense to me. before battle 40As 40Ds, after battle 20As 40Ds. Does that mean the defending spies would never die? or is that because of other troops in play?
also, I was pointing out that this game has war in reverse calculation. I mean think about it. I attack you. You have advance knowledge that I sent troops. Wouldn't you prepare yourself with defensive strategy, like maybe sandbags around the stargate, or even hide behind or above buildings waiting for my troops to come out of stargate? If so, wouldn't that mean that even with a sudden rush of massive amount of troops, the defensive army should have better edge? Maybe fleet may have different way of workings, but even if you squeeze massive amount of troops into the stargate, they would still not all come out of the stargate at the same time. it's like pushing a hundred men into a doorway. They still have to go through one at a time. so it make sense that defender would need less troops to win, doesn't it?
edit: which leads me to just remember something that seems amiss. If we send troops "through" stargate to attack other stargate worlds. Why can we attack those inactive outposts which has less population that strictly needed for a stargate to be build/repaired at all? Also, how does one send troops to a secondary outposts who has no stargate whatsoever? peculiar thought, init? btw i m not suggesting to change this system at all. Just a thought of logic at conflicting facts.