It's a different scale though. I'm around 18 to 21 on the overall rankings, shy of 100k points.

The #90 player currently - and granted we don't know if he has fleets in the air, or what-not, so the rankings aren't necessarily to a "T" ... is an AZG player with ~30k points. Yeah, I'm a good bit bigger, but that's 70ish ranks.

Then you go to a top 5 overall and the point gap is 3x for a ranking jump of only 10-15 ranks. There's not much for it. There are players in the 50s that have planets too heavily-defended for me to attack or fleets that I can't single-handedly crash for a profit. I mean, I can destroy their fleet totally, but at a net loss to myself as well, so I don't do it.

Most of the Vengeance guys don't have that issue. If they want to crash someone it's as simple as "will I hit him, or will he get out of the way." There's no specter of losing a fleet. If you throw everything at them on an attack they might lose more than they expected, but you'll lose everything.

Meaning that it doesn't impact how I play that much. I'm not going to waste time probing planets of players who have almost as many points in defense as I do, total. I'll hunt players within 75k or so of me either way, and avoid the players with 150k+ points of me. Somebody sends 7 death stars and ~1000 destroyers at me? I move. Can't do anything else.

It'll change somewhat over time, if people are dedicated enough to closing the gap - has to, for the game's health. It's not good for the game when the top 20 players are all in 1-3 alliances. But it will take time and if someone's committed to keeping it from happening they can really impede parity.

exactly but its better then just one alliance being in the top 10. without a danger to your fleet and dominance the game would become boring

Sadbutrue wrote:exactly but its better then just one alliance being in the top 10. without a danger to your fleet and dominance the game would become boring

That's almost how it is at the moment, though. I suspect gumppy or Istalris could really knock the crap out of a ~V~ fleet if both parties brought everything to bear. But either of those two would really limp away from it, and that's one ~V~ fleet. So there's really no reason to attempt it.

Then do something about it, sadbutrue, cause we 're closing fast

oh i will do something... you enjoying that moon? wish rapid fire would kick in someday

Yeah, thanks for the moon which you gave me by blowing up the solar sats I used
to research graviton, in an attack where you lost nearly as many points as I did,
on a planet that had almost no resources for you to get and no fleet
and with me recovering all the debris you left behind when I went online because you didn't calculate
correctly the required recyclers
Did you like the taste of my gaus cannons
See you in battle

i recovered most of it. i never have enough recyclers. my losses were just lf's those satellites are a pain in the ***. i had to get the satellites out of the way for later

In order to... ease the tension here, I will quote a verse from the band who actually founded Black Metal, Venom:
Lay down your souls to the Gods of RAWK 'n roll

lol lukin soon u will c not so many disgusting obscenities i hope. - Istalris
(so u better hide ur fleet well son)

nobody wants to c ur ballz