Jennabation wrote:PieDaDDY wrote:How does a person listed as RED to me with over 70mil army attack a person with 30mil army? Seems kind of unbalanced.
Players will sometimes intentionally de-power themselves by either de-equipping command equipment or destroying some army. After having "farmed" those with lower power, they power up again. Otherwise what may have happened is the 30m army player attacked the 70m army player a day or two ago when the 70m army player was lower in power [i.e. listed in yellow] and won. The 70m player now has the option of using the "revenge" button once he/she has powered up.
In the former case it's not a matter of balance; rather it is an unintended mechanic that certain players take advantage of. As the entire server continues to grow, it will become less of a problem, as attack ranges are calculated based off a percentage of your own power. Intentionally de-powering yourself will not necessarily work as well with a more mature server as the attacking player will find that he/she puts himself/herself at risk by de-powering.
The same goes for the latter case; large jumps in power will be less frequent, short of players who spend a couple hundred on Gold of course.
Thanks for the answer Jenna!