From 7e330b1185d8f69fd2ae0e35eaf2acc099d86470 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: 1brucben <1benjbruce@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2025 03:06:27 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Another Balance Change (#987)

## Description:
Reduces attack speed for large attacks. A further 10% increase in
attacker losses. minor 5% decrease in pop growth. Attacks against Terra
Nullius fade away as in v22.

This addresses the community poll finding that many players consider
current troop movements to be too fast. The latter two changes help nerf
attacking and slowdown snowballing.
## Please complete the following:

- [x] I have added screenshots for all UI updates
- [x] I process any text displayed to the user through translateText()
and I've added it to the en.json file
- [x] I have added relevant tests to the test directory
- [x] I confirm I have thoroughly tested these changes and take full
responsibility for any bugs introduced
- [x] I understand that submitting code with bugs that could have been
caught through manual testing blocks releases and new features for all
contributors

## Please put your Discord username so you can be contacted if a bug or
regression is found:

1brucben
---
 src/core/configuration/DefaultConfig.ts | 16 ++++++++--------
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/core/configuration/DefaultConfig.ts b/src/core/configuration/DefaultConfig.ts
index bdb17e3ae..71d84346b 100644
--- a/src/core/configuration/DefaultConfig.ts
+++ b/src/core/configuration/DefaultConfig.ts
@@ -66,8 +66,8 @@ const numPlayersConfig = {
 } as const satisfies Record<GameMapType, [number, number, number]>;
 
 const TERRAIN_EFFECTS = {
-  [TerrainType.Plains]: { mag: 1, speed: 0.8 }, // higher speed, lower damage
-  [TerrainType.Highland]: { mag: 1.15, speed: 1 },
+  [TerrainType.Plains]: { mag: 1.1, speed: 0.8 }, // higher speed, lower damage
+  [TerrainType.Highland]: { mag: 1.2, speed: 1 },
   [TerrainType.Mountain]: { mag: 1.3, speed: 1.25 },
 } as const;
 
@@ -228,7 +228,7 @@ export class DefaultConfig implements Config {
   falloutDefenseModifier(falloutRatio: number): number {
     // falloutRatio is between 0 and 1
     // So defense modifier is between [3, 1]
-    return 3 - falloutRatio * 2;
+    return 2 - falloutRatio;
   }
   SAMCooldown(): number {
     return 75;
@@ -532,7 +532,7 @@ export class DefaultConfig implements Config {
         ? this.traitorDefenseDebuff()
         : 1;
       const baseTroopLoss = 16;
-      const baseTileCost = 23;
+      const baseTileCost = 30;
       const attackStandardSize = 10_000;
       return {
         attackerTroopLoss:
@@ -541,15 +541,15 @@ export class DefaultConfig implements Config {
         tilesPerTickUsed:
           baseTileCost *
           within(defenderDensity, 3, 100) ** 0.2 *
-          (attackStandardSize / attackTroops) ** 0.075 *
+          (attackStandardSize / attackTroops) ** 0.1 *
           speed *
-          within(attackRatio, 0.1, 20) ** 0.4,
+          within(attackRatio, 0.1, 20) ** 0.35,
       };
     } else {
       return {
         attackerTroopLoss: 16 * mag,
         defenderTroopLoss: 0,
-        tilesPerTickUsed: 31 * speed,
+        tilesPerTickUsed: 492 * speed * within(attackTroops, 1, 10000) ** -0.3,
       };
     }
   }
@@ -642,7 +642,7 @@ export class DefaultConfig implements Config {
     //population grows proportional to current population with growth decreasing as it approaches max
     // smaller countries recieve a boost to pop growth to speed up early game
     const baseAdditionRate = 10;
-    const basePopGrowthRate = 1200 / max + 1 / 150;
+    const basePopGrowthRate = 1100 / max + 1 / 160;
     const reproductionPop = 0.9 * player.troops() + 1.1 * player.workers();
     let toAdd = baseAdditionRate + basePopGrowthRate * reproductionPop;
     const totalPop = player.totalPopulation();