Flanderlion wrote:Players having tens or even hundreds of puppets I think is fine. I personally want API logins to continue to reset the CTE timer. Pretty sure players would just legally or illegally do it via HTML site instead. It's a moderation thing, as like if someone has enough puppets to be a problem, it's fairly noticeable.
Just I view thousands as excessive, and no matter the reason for them, I don't view it as positive for the game as a whole when someone has that many. Those nations cost the site, but don't bring the positive of more players/ad revenue/NS store revenue etc.
Technical solutions like changing mechanics to not promote having thousands of puppets will help (e.g. cards) but in the end it's still going to come down to moderation/puppet sweeps for players like Womble/Parhe and the like who have thousands.
It will be very unpopular with the less than 10 players who would be affected by a limit of 1-2k (1k officially, 2k threshold for potential enforcement) but for the game/majority of players it will improve their own experiences.
I believe I could approve this measure.
I don't really have any intention of making more then 1000 puppets.
but I do love to collect my own cards.
still the numbers of nation this could now, is very small, but its balancing effect on many aspect/ card farming would be more then welcome.
on top of my mind, here are the owners of more then 1000 puppets (note some of them might not have that many puppets anymore)
Daytime to night with 1203
feu de glace with 2603
koem klab with 2087
noah second country 2444
oofery 1077
refuge isle 1432
seanat 1124
the northern light 3498
(declared or reported) so that's a grand total of 8 players.
although you can say not everyone reported their puppets.