Unibot III wrote:Chicken Overlords (and many other farms) are a problem because the regions are ranked by population rather than WA population. Therefore, the game gives them the impression of being major regions (and presumably active ones), when they're in all reality dumping grounds for puppets.
This thread has tied all sorts of reasons to why change has to happen, but primarily the reason why Chicken Overlords is a problem is that the game doesn't let us forget about its presence. Nobody would care about CO if it was ranked #13,000, not #1.
In general, I think the Regions page is poorly organized these days. It's currently ranked by Census by default - which begs to question who in their right mind wants to search by "Sector: Agriculture" on a daily basis.
Ranking by census is mostly non-functional. To organize the list by something vaguely sensible, you have to have the good senses to open the drop down menu and go to something useful.
Some thoughts:
- A new ranking "WA Population" should be the default ranking.
- You should also be able to sort WA Delegates by endorsement, rather than just an alphabetical list. Who out there is using alphabetical order?
- The current "WA Endorsements" Census ranking is not particularly helpful as a substitute to the above categories because it's measuring endorsements / per capita rather than a straight endorsement figure.
We've talked about doing this in the past, and nothing ever seems to come of it. So I would expect continued complaints about card-farming until someone acts on it.
I agree all the solutions should be implemented, but due to mostly other reasons. I don't think hiding the region from view actually solves the core issues with certain individual players having excessive numbers of nations. Eventually admin will change from a 'we can handle this load for now' to a 'why should we have to handle this load that doesn't help anyone' lens and we'll see action on this, but for now it's a mixture between not noticing/other priorities/looking at it from the wrong lens.
Cards needs a technical change so mass puppet creation isn't necessary to play, but in terms of Wombles etc. admin just needs to give a direction to moderation 'if a player has excessive numbers of nations, puppet sweep them to protect site resources'. No need for technical changes, if a player has excessive (I view it as multiple thousands but admin might have a different number) numbers of nations, it's fairly hard to miss.
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