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This article is from the netrek
Frequently Offered Clever Suggestions list, by Tom Holub
doosh@best.com with numerous contributions by others.
18. Add incentives for scout bombing.
Problem: Very few people are willing to SC-bomb because of the drain
on stats (too much time away from taking planets). Bombing 2 or 3
armies at a time doesn't really help the bombing stats much; ogging
carriers may do more.
Proposal: Change the amount of bombing credit based on the number of
armies sitting on the planet when bombing began. So you'd get massive
credit for bombing the last three armies, but not nearly as much for
bombing it from 60 to 55.
Alternate proposal: Start all planets out at 5 or 6 armies.
Why Not: Both proposals suffer from the fact that average bombing
stats have already been computed on most servers based on the "one
army, one vote" scheme with 30 initial armies on each planet. Changing
the setup mid-stream would make it nearly impossible to get a 1.0
bombing rating.
It's also highly unlikely that anybody really concerned about rank is
going to do much scout bombing anyway. Advancing bombing at the
expense of offense and planets is not a good way to scum up to
Admiral.
The alternate proposal also affects the ability of a starbase to fill
up with 25 armies at the start of a game. Overall, the second proposal
will likely have a dramatic impact on the way the first few minutes of
a game are played - something that isn't likely to go over too well
with the "old timers."
The INL server, and some pickup servers, have gone to 17-army game
starts; this helps some, but not enough. It does allow the base to get
25 armies fairly easily, however.
lexus.astro.indiana.edu has also implemented "flatten credit"; you get
extra bombing credit for bombing all the armies off a planet, no
matter how many started there. That way, bombing a planet from 5 to 4
(which SC bombers do all the time) is worth more than bombing it from
17 to 16. It still doesn't make bombing a high-DI activity.
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