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Okay, stay with me for a while, I'm just back from a pub so I'm probably not wording this as strait as I could.
On the way home, I was thinking on how to solve the situation with tech selling, and how no matter what we tried to do, we could not keep GoW from selling, or even given away 'our' tech, for their money or glory, depriving us of profits we should have had. This situation will only worsen as teams will start to be even less amicable to each other with the coming of Chivalry.
So, an idea, which might make researching profitable again.
What if we sell future tech to anyone who wants it for a decent price, at let's say 200 gold for a 800 beaker tech. We don't ask for a NDA, but we ask for something else: if team A, who we sell the tech to, sells it to team B, team A will be required to give us 100 gold extra. Further, they make the same promise, where if team B sells or gives it to team C, team A is required to give us another 100 gold.
It is in a team best interest to sell it on, and the beauty is that they can ask what they want. If team A charges team B 200 gold, they gain 100 gold, we gain 100 gold, and everyone is happy. If they want to trade cities, other techs, cats, luxs, or even give it away for free they can... as long as we get our 100 gold. They can also include additional clauses, so that they would be given the same scheme if they want to, because if team B deals it on, team A is required to give us 100 gold, even if they don't agree with the deal between B and C. And lastly, we commit to not selling it beneath our price of 200 gold, or a value equal to that, so that team A has a genuine chance of trading it on (this should give them an incentive to try to be swift in acquiring tech from us, instead of waiting until NDAs expire, or others can trade a tech onwards in another form)
The problem is of course that this is completely honor based: we have to make sure that, even if war would break out, we would not be double-crossed. But it's a fair system, and other teams are invited to propose the same agreement to us, we would be willing to except it. It gives back the incentive to do some research in this game, because as it looks now, all research has stopped, and this game will end in the age of knights.
I would be willing to try this out with the next tech we'll research, we can't stay on 0% research forever. Because we can we should try to race ahead in tech, it certainly would make winning this game a lot more easy. But I think everyone agrees that our last tech did not exactly help us, we lost a great deal of gold there, and now others are catching up in research ability.
DeepO
On the way home, I was thinking on how to solve the situation with tech selling, and how no matter what we tried to do, we could not keep GoW from selling, or even given away 'our' tech, for their money or glory, depriving us of profits we should have had. This situation will only worsen as teams will start to be even less amicable to each other with the coming of Chivalry.
So, an idea, which might make researching profitable again.
What if we sell future tech to anyone who wants it for a decent price, at let's say 200 gold for a 800 beaker tech. We don't ask for a NDA, but we ask for something else: if team A, who we sell the tech to, sells it to team B, team A will be required to give us 100 gold extra. Further, they make the same promise, where if team B sells or gives it to team C, team A is required to give us another 100 gold.
It is in a team best interest to sell it on, and the beauty is that they can ask what they want. If team A charges team B 200 gold, they gain 100 gold, we gain 100 gold, and everyone is happy. If they want to trade cities, other techs, cats, luxs, or even give it away for free they can... as long as we get our 100 gold. They can also include additional clauses, so that they would be given the same scheme if they want to, because if team B deals it on, team A is required to give us 100 gold, even if they don't agree with the deal between B and C. And lastly, we commit to not selling it beneath our price of 200 gold, or a value equal to that, so that team A has a genuine chance of trading it on (this should give them an incentive to try to be swift in acquiring tech from us, instead of waiting until NDAs expire, or others can trade a tech onwards in another form)
The problem is of course that this is completely honor based: we have to make sure that, even if war would break out, we would not be double-crossed. But it's a fair system, and other teams are invited to propose the same agreement to us, we would be willing to except it. It gives back the incentive to do some research in this game, because as it looks now, all research has stopped, and this game will end in the age of knights.
I would be willing to try this out with the next tech we'll research, we can't stay on 0% research forever. Because we can we should try to race ahead in tech, it certainly would make winning this game a lot more easy. But I think everyone agrees that our last tech did not exactly help us, we lost a great deal of gold there, and now others are catching up in research ability.
DeepO
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