I believe the honour system is there to help encourage the higher ranked players to go after those of similar rank and not just pick on the little guys, how ever there is one major flaw I see in this.
The Honour system only includes those that are stronger or up to 50% below you in military rankings, with out including those HIGHER RANKED but with little military score.
I'll give some examples.
In uni1.org i have approximately 15m points, looking through the high score (not including bandits) the lowest ranked player who is a honour target for me has just 10% of my points, where as there is a player over 100 ranks, and 5m points (making him around 20 million points) ABOVE me who is not an honourable target.
I think its ridiculous that with the system as it is, its "honourable" for me to hit someone who has around 90% LESS points then me, yet someone who has 30% MORE points then me is dishonourable just because he has a different playing style to me (I'm mostly a miner with some fleet)
To me this is doing the opposite of what the HP system intends to do, and actually encourages me to pick on those smaller then me, and leave those "big boys" alone.
What I propose is either:
Make it so the general rank range (e.g if your rank 235 then everyone, regardless of military rank from 1 to 299) is considered an honourable target.
Or
Make those from 25% less points, and every one above you in the general rankings (again, regardless of their military rankings) as honourable targets.
I believe This would be especially important in the older unis, if this would be a problem in the newer ones, then let the inclusion of the general rankings kick in when the fleet escape cut off comes in.
The Honour system only includes those that are stronger or up to 50% below you in military rankings, with out including those HIGHER RANKED but with little military score.
I'll give some examples.
In uni1.org i have approximately 15m points, looking through the high score (not including bandits) the lowest ranked player who is a honour target for me has just 10% of my points, where as there is a player over 100 ranks, and 5m points (making him around 20 million points) ABOVE me who is not an honourable target.
I think its ridiculous that with the system as it is, its "honourable" for me to hit someone who has around 90% LESS points then me, yet someone who has 30% MORE points then me is dishonourable just because he has a different playing style to me (I'm mostly a miner with some fleet)
To me this is doing the opposite of what the HP system intends to do, and actually encourages me to pick on those smaller then me, and leave those "big boys" alone.
What I propose is either:
Make it so the general rank range (e.g if your rank 235 then everyone, regardless of military rank from 1 to 299) is considered an honourable target.
Or
Make those from 25% less points, and every one above you in the general rankings (again, regardless of their military rankings) as honourable targets.
I believe This would be especially important in the older unis, if this would be a problem in the newer ones, then let the inclusion of the general rankings kick in when the fleet escape cut off comes in.
