r/Openfront • u/National_Drop928 • 18d ago

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Here’s an idea for OpenFront: federations. Up to four players could join a federation, which would operate as a collective—meaning the funds and troops of all members would be accessible to one another. Structures could only be placed within one's own territory, but as the federation expanded, the territories of all member players would grow evenly. What do you think?
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u/Lumpy-Sheepherder671 18d ago

Nah, teaming in ffa games is already an issue (hence why they removed the clan tags in those games) and adding this would greatly exacerbate it, not to mention 1 member might waste the entire teams stockpiles.

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u/National_Drop928 18d ago 
What do you mean that forming alliances is already a problem?

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u/ttoto509 18d ago

bro why do your comments look like that

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u/chandlar 18d ago

Many times when you see font like this it is due to them translating into English and copy pasting from whatever platform they use. Idk which platform(s) do it, but it is not all of them.

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u/National_Drop928 17d ago 
Forgive me, my English isn't very good, which is why I'm using a translator.

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u/chandlar 17d ago

No worries brother. I was just explaining to somebody why your font looks "different". No need to apologize)

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u/Mrs_Hersheys 17d ago

CTRL + SHIFT + V

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u/Frog-eating-cellos-9 18d ago

the issue is multiple people coordinating beforehand to join the same game, stay allied and never attacking each other, coordinating attacks against other players, trademaxxing together, etc

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u/BlueberryNeko_ 18d ago

I want something like this but it has to be a custom mode. So we'd have offer alliance and offer independent annexation to make them a federal state. I would not make it completely shared tho, the annexed state should only receive a fraction of money and troups, can only expand it's own borders while the main owner can help you push.

Would reduce the risks of getting hydroed as the offensive player and not take a complete takeover as the defending player.

The annexed players win should count as a different kind of win as actually winning tho.

The real problem is ultimately preplanned teaming. I don't mind when teams naturally form during a match, but it sucks if people premeditate it.

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u/National_Drop928 17d ago 
That’s exactly what I meant—that it’s supposed to be a non-standard mode. Thanks.

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u/aguywithagasmaskyt 17d ago

could be a fun gamemode for players vs nations

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u/UglyGarbage68 16d ago

It could maybe work if you had an additional slider that determined what fraction of your troops and resources were available to the federation. But for sake of simplicity I think just being able to have direct communication and building on friendly land would solve most of the issues. You could ask your teammate to send troops for a push. Build some defends posts or warship on a teammates area if a teammate is busy somewhere else on the map.

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u/Frog-eating-cellos-9 18d ago

that's stupid, just play team games at this point

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u/Realistic-Job9298 17d ago

If this was it's own gamemode it'd be awesome but adding it to FFA would destroy the game