Taligor wrote:
And what about stadistics? there are a reset? It's a new game, must be a new stadistics.
Current statistics will continue to be used, so you won't lose what you gathered so far and can still gain new stats by playing 1.5.
Hans A. Pils wrote:
@Ryan04px2025 and @Taligor it's good you bring up the topic of how K/D will work in CoW1.5.K/D is not some meaningless statistics that nobody cares about. Apart from the victories you achieved (and these by the way are pretty much hidden as the conglomeration of the games joined / games won figure, maps joined and the victory achievements on the bottom of the achievements list), it's your only indicator of success.
If it becomes blurred too much by CoW1.5 changes, that would leave only striving for the victory on your current map as motivation to lead your country well. Sometimes achieving victory is too easy. While in other situations or for other players, it's impossible. If victory was the only goal, players who see it getting out of reach would be very much tempted to quit that map... even more so than they are now already. Also it would be pretty much single-sided / boring. Making K/D blurry and thus insignificant would be like taking away the artistic score from ski-jumping. It would still be a sport, but not an interesting one any more (if only wideness of the jump counts).
CoW1.5.2 already is an issue for the significance of K/D. Because players that care about their K/D are inclined to research higher unit levels (earlier) than they would if they were only caring about the victory. While the two goals "victory" and "good K/D" shouldn't be contradictory. In CoW1.0 there is always only one "right" decision that will make you achieve both goals and that should be kept up.
Now doctrines make this issue worse.
I therefore suggest the following changes to K/D:
* Each unit has an attribute "military points". This is already the case, only these aren't displayed anywhere. They from now on should be displayed in the unit detail view. No need to sacrifice space for it - could be for example behind the unit name like this:
(with a tooltip saying "military points" when hovering over it).
* K/D should be changed from
"number of units killed (against human players)" / "number of units lost (against human players)"
to
"number of military points gained (against human players)" / "number of military points other (human) players gained by killing your units".
* Units from Comintern doctrine should have slightly less military points than Allies or PanAsian ones. While Axis units should have the most.
* Military points should increase a bit with researching higher levels.
These changes would allow players to make their doctrine, research and build choices irrespective of whether they rather care about victory or rather about K/D. And it could be used in a new ranking - see --> this proposal <--.
Nice suggestion. Still its not the highest prio for us. We don't balance the game for K/D fetishists
While I would certainly like to change the system, it would require us diving into our statistics system and that system is pretty fragile (as you may have noticed in the past) and our devs try to avoid it. Since the benefit is rather small and the risk is big I am afraid it will be rather low on our backlog.
VIRVCOBRV wrote:
Torpedo28000 wrote:
The doctrine bonus is for the specific for the terrain bonus a unit gets. So for example armour has +50% bonus in plains. With Pan Asian doctrine it becomes +75% bonus in plains. I believe in 1.5 every unit or majority of units now have bonuses for different terrains.
Ok but do all units receive the terrain bonus ? Because some units such as AT cannons don't have an inherent terrain bonus, so which bonus do they then receive ? None ?Also, pan-asian light tanks receive a bonus of 15% against infantry. Do these boni stack ? Aka if a pan-asian LT fight infantry on Plains terrain, does it have a 50% + 25% + 15% = 90% bonus ?If so, I am SO playing that doctrine lol
All land units in CoW1.5 have 1 or 2 terrain bonuses. The +25% terrain bonus of Pan-Asian means that they get +25% added to the terrains they are already profecient in (before individual unit buffs are added). So an Anti tank will get additional bonus in cities and Hills/Forests, as that's where it has profeciency in. In the right terrain this makes Pan-Asian units certainly strong, but its also more situational than a general strength increase.
The bonuses of the Doctrines stack. So after the general Doctrine buff is added, the specific unit buff is added as well. If an Axis unit for example receives +10% more damage, this will be added up with the +15% more damage from the general doctrine buff, resulting in a +25% damage buff for that unit. If a pan-asian unit receives a buff of +10% Hitpoints, it cancels out the general debuff of -10% Hitpoints.
Dacius I wrote:
- I hope The country flag changed if we change the doctrines
You cannot change your Doctrine after you selected a country. You have to start a new game round if you want to play another Doctrine.
From my memory all units bar planes (and navy obv) have terrain bonuses, and troops no longer have negative ones. Which I always wondered about but this pan asian doctrine could explain that new change...almost like it was planned 
