Should this exploit be allowed?

[Moonsinger]

I'm not sure what you are guys are talking about. I do quite a bit of milking in my games but I have never run into this exploit. Even if I set luxury slider at 100%, the gold income would still be on the positive side; therefore, it would be impossible for me to benefit from this exploit. Moreover, by the time I'm ready to milk the game, I would have at least 20000 golds in reserve (getting ready for rushing the mass transit in all major cities).

Of course, I immediately disband most of my units immediately after the war. If I don't have the technology to build the mass transit yet, I would disband my units to pre-build the factory. This is a good way to store up shields and lower the upkeep cost at the same time. Since the factory would take forever to build, by the time I discover ecology, I just simply swich all my factory queues to the mass transit and immediately rush to finish them.

Btw, I usually don't build any factory in my game; therefore, I can always put the factory in my production queue so that I can store up shields. I do think that it's an exploit to run on a negative balance. With my playing style, it would be impossible for me to have a negative balance (I love my saving account too much ); therefore, I refer that no one else using it. However, if you want to use it; that's fine with me. IMO, people who have trouble with keeping a positive balance won't score very high.

 

[Cartouche Bee]

Moonsinger, this is more a tactic that the early Space Launch/"tech catcheruppers" crowd could use to keep the tech research pace up. Clearly, the game should really disband units or buildings until the deficit is eliminated. The player should be given the option of which to do each step of the way to balancing the budget shortfall, but that would require additional programming. Other than the Space Launch crowd, I think if you are in this position, you need to review your game play practices.

 

[Moonsinger]

Originally posted by Cartouche Bee
Other than the Space Launch crowd, I think if you are in this position, you need to review your game play practices.

Bingo! This tactic won't do the Milk crowd any good. Going back up to the last 10 posts or so, they were worrying that the Milk crowd would take advantage of this. When we milk the game, technology means very little to us.

 

[anarres]

I want to play GOTM14 and therefore need to know if this has been ruled on. The vote is currently:
YES - 31
NO - 31
I HAVE NO IDEA (?why) - 9

 

[Creepster]

It is not allowed. See Matrix's comment on page two of the thread.

 

[anarres]

Originally posted by Creepster
It is not allowed. See Matrix's comment on page two of the thread.

Well, I was sure I read the thread first, but on closer inspection I realise that I am either very selectively blind, or just too wasted to notice

btw, anyone know why the only smiley with a spliff is called PIMP? Obviously a very open minded coder designed them

 

[Serg]

I never used this exploit (I did't know about this) and will not use. But I vote for the freedom of choice in this situation.