Login

russian armor

Marketeconomy in Coh2 and other rts

3 Sep 2014, 12:19 PM
#1
avatar of Unshavenbackman

Posts: 680

Well marketeconomy may not be the best way to organize the world but maybe it would be the best way to balance rts-games. It seems that relic never will be able to balance this game. Wouldnt it be better that the price of the units would be dependent on the market? If many buy (build) a unit the unit would go up in price and if few build a unit the price will fall. AS an example, in this state of the game the SU-76 would be much cheaper than it is at the moment and rifles maybe would be a bit more expensive.
3 Sep 2014, 13:19 PM
#2
avatar of SlaYoU

Posts: 400

Well marketeconomy may not be the best way to organize the world but maybe it would be the best way to balance rts-games. It seems that relic never will be able to balance this game. Wouldnt it be better that the price of the units would be dependent on the market? If many buy (build) a unit the unit would go up in price and if few build a unit the price will fall. AS an example, in this state of the game the SU-76 would be much cheaper than it is at the moment and rifles maybe would be a bit more expensive.


Having to look at every unit's price everytime you want to build one would be a pain in the ass, imo. And basic infantry for each faction would be all screwed up, just imagine grens being 350 mp, or riflemen being 400 ^^
3 Sep 2014, 14:06 PM
#3
avatar of _underscore
Donator 33

Posts: 322

Fascinating idea - it'd be tricky to implement though. ie Are people building rifles because they're OP, or is that just what you're supposed to build... With some interference it could probably be weighted satisfactorily, but then the balance debate would just turn into a debate about how successfully weighting is implemented, etc.

With so many thousands playing I don't think volatility would be a problem. Prices would probably drift slowly in one direction over the course of days/weeks.
3 Sep 2014, 14:21 PM
#4
avatar of drChengele
Patrion 14

Posts: 640 | Subs: 1

This is a brilliant idea.

I always thought it would totally rock if CoH had some sort of a global campaign mode that influenced all matches. One week - preparation for Kursk, tanks more expensive on both sides. Another week - Kursk started, tanks cheaper on both sides. Next week - it's winter, only winter maps on rotation etc. Another week - Operation Little Saturn, Germans are on the defensive and cannot win matches, only put up a resistance, so they can only decapture Victory Points and need to destroy a set amount of Soviet units to win before VPs tick to zero. Etc etc.

Probably would be impossible to balance, so it should be a separate mode from ranked automatch. Triple war spoils drop rate or something to attract people to this mode.
3 Sep 2014, 14:25 PM
#5
avatar of NinjaWJ

Posts: 2070

really cool idea but I don't think it would work in a WW2 themed RTS. Some units are meant to be cheap and some expensive. It would be a lot to control for and would make balance even harder
3 Sep 2014, 14:28 PM
#6
avatar of R4ngerArea
Donator 11

Posts: 165

Honestly, this idea isn't that bad drChenele, would sound like an interesting mode to play btw
3 Sep 2014, 14:32 PM
#7
avatar of NinjaWJ

Posts: 2070

Yes a global campaign which can influence and give bonuses would be awesome. Imagine a map of Europe being battleground for COH players. Every win or loss would change the look of the map. The winning side will get warspoils and nice cosmetic items.


BUT this is off topic heheh
3 Sep 2014, 15:06 PM
#8
avatar of Lucas Troy

Posts: 508

Cool idea, definitely in the "never gonna happen in this game" category though.

It'd need to make an exception for units that are supposed to be spam by design. US would be boned if riflemen shot up in price because everyone builds them.
3 Sep 2014, 15:17 PM
#9
avatar of drChengele
Patrion 14

Posts: 640 | Subs: 1

It'd need to make an exception for units that are supposed to be spam by design. US would be boned if riflemen shot up in price because everyone builds them.
There are very easy ways around this. I think noone expects spamming Grenadiers to be as severely penalized as spamming ISUs.

Just add a "buffer" before it impacts a price. Look at the maximum number of a unit simultaneously fielded by a single player during a match (to avoid squad wipes and replacing those wipes having too much of an impact).

So, up to 3 Rifles at the same time = no impact on price, 4th rifle = small impact, 5th rifle = larger impact.

expected value for Sturmpios would be 1.8, for Cons and Volks 3 or 4... etc.
Expected value for ISUs, Tigers,IS2s etc. would be 0.15 . So fielding even one would impact global prices and it would take 5 games without fielding one to return it.
3 Sep 2014, 15:17 PM
#10
avatar of drChengele
Patrion 14

Posts: 640 | Subs: 1

(double post, my apologies)
3 Sep 2014, 15:23 PM
#11
avatar of Romeo
Honorary Member Badge
Benefactor 115

Posts: 1970 | Subs: 5

While kind of interesting, I feel like this would just make balancing the game even harder than it already is.
3 Sep 2014, 15:29 PM
#12
avatar of Trainzz

Posts: 332 | Subs: 1

It would be fun, but not really competitive. The problem is that balance between the factions would not be achieved. Instead you basically support unit usage that is less valuable in a certain situation, because it is much cheaper. Factions needed to be designed for this. OKW has no chioce but going Volks early, so that would be a huge setback already, since Soviets at least havea choice between Maxims and Conscripts.

It sounds really interesting, but I would not want it to be playecd competitively.
3 Sep 2014, 16:00 PM
#13
avatar of elchino7
Senior Moderator Badge

Posts: 8154 | Subs: 2

As a new mode: it has some points in favour but some huge flaws, regarding faction design and accesibility to different tiers.

3 Sep 2014, 16:49 PM
#14
avatar of sneakking

Posts: 655

Permanently Banned
Good idea but not appropriate for this type of game imo.
3 Sep 2014, 18:14 PM
#15
avatar of Lucas Troy

Posts: 508

It works well in certain board games I play. In Small World, you select new civilizations to deploy, and if you pass one over in the lineup in favor of another further back, you have to put a coin (victory point) on each you passover.

In other words, if you select a civ that 4 people looked at and said "hell no," you get a bonus for finally picking it.

This idea is cool but I agree it'd make balancing too complicated in a game of this nature. The board games where it works well have fewer stats and mechanics.

A related, simpler idea - what if relic:

- tracked commander selections in the top 200 automatch for each game mode
- gave small resource bonuses for selecting the extinct commanders? So if you pick Ostruppen, or soviet defense, you get more MP.

Maybe in CoH3...
3 Sep 2014, 19:30 PM
#16
avatar of ASneakyFox

Posts: 365

it wouldnt really improve balance IMO. itd just kind of cycle between different "best" units.
3 Sep 2014, 19:48 PM
#17
avatar of elchino7
Senior Moderator Badge

Posts: 8154 | Subs: 2

What about increased war spoil drop for using unorthodox commanders ? On the same way we have free commanders each week, we should also have a "bonus" get more war spoils commander.
3 Sep 2014, 20:41 PM
#18
avatar of QuicksandGM

Posts: 68

It's an interesting idea but...

Spamming the cheapest units becomes a strategy no one's going to want to deal with.
No only that but if enough people spam them, it'll change their price, they'll become more expensive and that's good. However, something else just became cheap and guess what, it's going to be spammed.
No thanks.
3 Sep 2014, 21:17 PM
#19
avatar of Lucas Troy

Posts: 508

What about increased war spoil drop for using unorthodox commanders ? On the same way we have free commanders each week, we should also have a "bonus" get more war spoils commander.


That is an AWESOME idea. Gets them more played without unbalancing the game.

If it's soviet defense, it'd have to be one war spoils drop every half hour....
3 Sep 2014, 21:23 PM
#20
avatar of Yossarian

Posts: 70

Interesting idea, but risky experiment. Market economy of Diablo 3 was disastrous and consequently removed in the expansion.
1 user is browsing this thread: 1 guest

Ladders Top 10

  • #
    Steam Alias
    W
    L
    %
    Streak
Data provided by Relic Relic Entertainment

Replay highlight

VS
  • U.S. Forces flag cblanco ★
  • The British Forces flag 보드카 중대
  • Oberkommando West flag VonManteuffel
  • Ostheer flag Heartless Jäger
uploaded by XXxxHeartlessxxXX

Board Info

667 users are online: 667 guests
3 posts in the last 24h
3 posts in the last week
23 posts in the last month
Registered members: 48732
Welcome our newest member, strzlagx81
Most online: 2043 users on 29 Oct 2023, 01:04 AM