Military XP As a New Mechanic? Politics and War

Описание: This is a proposal for a new game mechanic, Military Experience (XP) for conventional military units. This proposal adds another layer of depth to war gameplay with additional content. It also incentivizes the use of more resources and promotes player activity, as well as war generally.

What is Military XP?
Military XP will be a new value stored. Each combat unit will receive 1 XP for completing a battle. This represents the knowledge and experience gained in battle that will allow military units to perform better in the future.
Currently, all conventional battles (i.e. not Spies, Missiles, or Nuclear Weapons) consist of 3 rolls to determine the outcome, with each side rolling between 40% and 100% of their combat value.
Military XP will apply as a modifier to the lower end of this range. At 0 XP, the rolls will be exactly as they are and always have been: between 40% and 100%. There will be no hard cap on the amount of XP, but effectively the benefit will be capped at +10% on the lower end, meaning rolls will be between 50% and 100% of the combat value.
These rolls determine the outcomes of battles (Immense Triumph, Moderate Success, Pyrrhic Victory, and Utter Failure) as well as the opponent’s casualty figures. Having more Military XP will increase the likelihood of a successful outcome, as well as inflicting more casualties and damage to the opponent. More Military XP will also decrease the variance in outcomes of battles.

How does Military XP work?
Each battle conducted will award 1 XP each to surviving military units of both sides of the battle. Soldiers, Tanks, Aircraft, and Ships will all have a total accumulated Military XP, and an Average XP will be calculated by dividing the Total XP by the number of units.
The Average XP will be plugged into a formula to determine the modifier to the lower end of rolls in battles. When Average XP = 0, there will be no modifier (rolling between 40%-100%). As the Average XP approaches Infinity, the modifier will approach +10% (rolling between 50%-100%).
f(x)=10*(1-e^(-x/50))
Where “x” is the Average XP and f(x) is the modifier to the lower end of each roll.

The formula has decreasing returns to scale, meaning that initial gains in Military XP will be more beneficial than later gains. For example, with around 35 Average XP you gain a 5% modifier, whereas it will take close to 180 Average XP to get near the full 10%. As Average XP increases toward infinity, the modifier will get closer and closer to being 10%.

Buying Additional Units
When purchasing or building additional units, these units will come with no existing Military XP. They will essentially dilute the existing Average XP and reduce your modifier in wars.
For example: A nation has 10,000 Soldiers and 200,000 Military XP, for an average of 20 XP per Soldier. This is a 3.297% modifier. If an additional 5,000 Soldiers are purchased, the number of Soldiers is now 15,000 and the amount of Military XP is still 200,000 for an average of 13.33 XP per Soldier. This reduces the modifier to 2.34%.

Dead or Decommissioned Units
When units die or are decommissioned, their Average XP goes with them.
For example: A nation has 10,000 Soldiers and 200,000 Military XP, for an average of 20 XP per Soldier. 2,000 Soldiers are discharged, and when they go the army also loses their Military XP of 40,000. This leaves 8,000 Soldiers and 160,000 Military XP but retains the Average XP of 20 per Soldier. The modifier to battles is not changed.

War Incentive
To gain Military XP in preparation for wars, nations will be incentivized to declare wars (or raid) to “blood” their units to gain experience. This is good for game activity as it promotes more use of gameplay mechanics, even in peacetime. However, wars will not be the only way to increase Military XP.

Military Training
A new mechanic for Military Training will be introduced, which will allow nations who are not engaged in any active wars to increase the Military XP for their units. These will essentially be “fake” battles and will allow nations to run training exercises which will increase XP for their units by 1 for each unit in the training operation.
Just like battles, Training will consume Gasoline and Munitions at the same rate a battle would. Each unit will be able to train once per day, with a 6 hour cooldown period (not turn based.)
This will encourage activity, as players will want to login daily to train their units to maintain high levels of Military XP. This will also increase demand for Gasoline and Munitions as they will be consumed at a higher rate during peacetime.
Training will require a player to complete a reCAPTCHA to execute to discourage botting of military training.