Kamikaze attack?

[Turock]

Several places in the game code it references a Kamikaze attack. Is that something leftover from days past? Doesn't seem like it is used at all.

[Devari]

Yes. It was an attack that would destroy your nation, land, troops, and all. However, in the process, the nation that you kamikaze-ed would lose however much land you had.

So, nation A uses kamikaze on nation B. Nation A has 50k land, Nation B has 80k Land. The following happens:
1) Nation A dies, with all the food, land, troops, and whatever else it had leaving the game.
2) Nation B is reduced to 80k-50k=30k land, with the 50k land lost permanently gone from the game.

[Turock]

Oh, I see why that was taken out! I can just see people creating accounts, build for a day or two and then hit the top players with it in order to reduce them to nothing. No chance to retaliate.

Thanks for the info Devari.

[Devari]

One also had to spend 10000 or so turns, but, yes, it was horribly unbalanced. It also sucked the land out of the game.

The concept is interesting, but I do think it is somewhat difficult to implement without being unfair and throwing off the balance of the game.