Increase the amount of oil

[bile]

What if a force had a certain number citizens join them after ever 30 minute time period. These citizens would help mine oil, and the more citizens you have the more oil you gained after that 30 minute time period count down. To pay the citizens, you need to give them food or something, and if they don't have enough food for themself or their family, they leave your force, and now each count down you don't get as much oil as the last one, unless you buy them food, and you regain citizens.

This would require that each person would have to buy food as well as weapons, soilders, etc.

Im thinking that this would make it a little more challenging, and make it harder for the people that are at the top to sit back and watch as their points rack up. I think that they should work to keep that first place position.

[The_Emperor]

It's also a challenge for funky. :D But sounds fun and challenging. :wink:

[oilfight]

at first i thought you were kidding (since the first part is how it already works), but with food yah i see your point.

Reasonably, food is a derivitive of oil anyway (fertilizer made from natural gas, tractors / plows powered and lubcricated with oil, pesticides and herbacides made from petroleum, etc), so basically this would only make sense if there was some upper limit to the amount of oil you could produce, because so long as each extra citizen can extract more oil than is needed to make the food for them to survive, it wouldnt really make much difference.

I was actually thinking of maybe doing something along these lines, but it will have to wait.

[NaZguL]

Could also register the domain farmfight.com 8)

[oilfight]

ive registered the domain reswars ;)

[bile]

the food would be cheaper than the amount of oil they can extract, because you are right, there is no difference if it isn't.

You should have to buy Pump jacks, in order to gain oil instead of what ever else happens.
- Small pump jacks would be cheap, and produce little oil
- Large pump jacks would be expensive, and produce alot of oil
(you can buy as many as you would like of either)





oilfight I have some questions for you if you don't mind answering them.

1.) How long did it take you to program all of this? (up to now)
2.) Did you go to school to learn the PHP, or did you learn on your own?

Right now IM going to school to become a web programer, I was just looking for information on this kind of thing, and how everything is done. IM trying to learn PHP on my own, but I don't konw where to start. I got the book "Spring into PHP5" and I downloaded PHP onto my comp. That is all the further I have gotten, and a few exercizes.

[The_Emperor]

OOooooooo, China's got a lot of mouths to feed. :P

[oilfight]

this game has been active since july 4th, and i worked on it for a month before that. developement for the about a month and a half afterwards was also quite rapid, and now has slowed. so in short, 3 months.

but i didnt start from scratch, I didn't even start knowing php/mysql. I started with a script called the "kings of chaos clone script" which cost about $100, and then learned php / mysql in the process of debugging and upgrading that script.

[Iron_Fist_Of_SB]

MySQL and PHP is a b***h im learning it little by little and its pretty complicated

[bile]

Here is another thing that could be done, When a commander attacks someone, and they have officers, the officers should get like 10% of what is taken from that battle. When an officer attaks someone, their commander should get 15% of what is taken from that battle, so in theory everone on that team wins!

Edit:
If this happens, the officers should be able to see their commanders' stats and the commanders should be able to see the officers' stats.

[oilfight]

MySQL and PHP is a b***h im learning it little by little and its pretty complicated

it can be a pain, but when you start with something already its quite a bit easier. It also helps not having to install / configure mysql / php, just get a host that has it set up right in the first place.