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Why the hell is this 500 charges? With 500 charges, it basically tells you that once you do 500 fights you are better off dumping energy on your bot. I suppose there is the argument to spend more points because you'll need more charges, but there is still that 1 buff per day limit.

tl;dr make the game less pro-dumping

To answer your question of why Dark Energy has 500 instead of 1000 duration, the rationale is that the buffs relevant to the monthly energy race have shorter duration than the ones that do not (I admit there is gray area with Spirit of Wolf).

That being said, I agree with your sentiment of making the game less anti-dumping and will consider adjusting buff stats to make it more viable to play more on a main bot.

Well, I guess you could make a case for not allowing the DE buff to work when losing fights. I mean, when you have the kudo buff activated, you don't lose more kudos than you would normally when you lose fights.

DE is just as useful for dumpers as it is for scoring on a main bot. Although more uses would simply save dumpers trophy points, inevitably more dumpers will be made anyway.

Well, I guess you could make a case for not allowing the DE buff to work when losing fights. I mean, when you have the kudo buff activated, you don't lose more kudos than you would normally when you lose fights.

This would really suck if you were being attacked by another 'real' bot though :P

This would really suck if you were being attacked by another 'real' bot though :P

It wouldn't be so bad if you could just attack them back when you logged in. But then there is the case of those NIY revenge attacks on bots lower level than you.