Atomic Age Dock Upgrade

[Quovatis]

Atomic age has been out for over a year, but we still don't have atomic age troops at the dock/shipyard. Will we ever get it? The dock being useful for the first time in the game's history is great, but the troops available are very weak for atomic age players.

 

[shukra]

is that true even if the dock is upgraded all the way?
i want to, but only for aesthetic value, how it looks graphically.

 

[Quovatis]

is that true even if the dock is upgraded all the way?
i want to, but only for aesthetic value, how it looks graphically.

Max dock upgrade currently only gives global age troops.

 

[Manifesto]

I'm fine with this. You can train your own AA troops or get them donated. The dock is just there to supplement your normal troops.
A Global dock troop is pretty good imo.

 

[Quovatis]

I'm fine with this. You can train your own AA troops or get them donated. The dock is just there to supplement your normal troops.
A Global dock troop is pretty good imo.

really? Have you looked at the stats? The Zero has about 1/3 the health of my mk6 fighters. They don't even survive one pass.

 

[Manifesto]

My point still stands, the troops are supplemental.
If you rely on them for anything except last minute cleanups or distractions or getting the 100% victory then thats your choice.
I use my main troops to get the main job done.

 

[cclaerbo]

I completely agree that there should have already been an upgrade available to the dock with atomic age troops. Manifesto you have the right to have a wrong opinion. The dock has been equal to the age your in and ne behind. There's no reason this still shouldn't be the case. No matter how you use the dock it will always be a supplement to regulat troops and not something that is depended upon for every attack. For those people that choose to upgrade it and use workers for it though should get decent armies for the time on the expeditions. The IA troops just don't cut it for AA

 

[pckrn]

we do have upgrades for every building every age except the global barracks and atomic dock so it does feel odd to not have them

 

[JMoney]

Even the global and industrial level troops cards from the dock/shipyard aren't really worth their time spent over the daily bonus cards that are also industrial/global around the gold and kingdom medal range. I feel like the dock/shipyard's troop cards could use a buff and their exped time reduced down to something like 16 hours. Like, I could have 2 french tanks or an exped force (6 brit ranged infantry, 1 machine gunner, and one heal truck -- industrial level) or the demo team (which is honestly terrible compared to a card like fire throwers) but I could just be using a better troop card that brings, like, double the amount of units than any of those. The Zero has merit as a throw away, suicide (kamikaze) plane for that emergency "distract this/kill those defenders" play but the exped takes something around 2 days... In the end not a single one of the cards from expeds them are worth their time. Even worse -- they're not even worth using the workers for. So I feel like if they are going to add that atomic dock/shipyard then they need to look back at the troop card expeds and buff them up to around the usefulness of other similar lvl troop cards.

Oh, also making sure to add an exped that will be better than Rangoon (since that's an industrial exped that will be lost with the AA upgrade). "Why?" you ask? Because Rangoon is literally the most useful exped in the entire list of expeds at Global lvl other than Kiel (nets 3 salts + tactics blessing), Le Havre (Cheese + Oil Blessing is half decent, though the exped time could be shortened) and Buenos Aires (3 scrolls + commerce blessing, honestly the weakest of the 4 economic expeds because of that awful 16 hour exped time. Would be better if it was reduced to Kiel/Rangoon time while keeping the 2/3 worker requirement). For the low low price of 2 workers (1 with research) you get 3 diamonds for a 6 to around 4 hours (with the right wonders + research) exped a pop. That's crazy useful for the higher medal ranges since 5 star diamonds are pretty much impossible up there. It makes you able to not have worry about rebuilding that tank destroyer army at all. If BHG replaced Rangoon with something legitimately worse then players would have literally no reason to upgrade the dock/shipyard to atomic -- which I know I very well would do myself. Although if you guys at BHG made the rest of the expeds (and future ones) as awesome as Rangoon then I can say I would constantly be sending out workers on those expeds.

 

[GeeGee]

I totally endorse the points being made in respect of the Dock. We have 8 Ages for a reason (hopefully 9 soon), so the Dock should mirror that journey.

I also agree with the points made by JMoney in respect of destinations, but for slightly different reasons. To my way of thinking why would any self respecting seaman conveniently ‘forget’ where certain destinations are on a world map? I would love the Dock to provide excursions to each and every destination unlocked through it’s evolution.

 

[JMoney]

I totally endorse the points being made in respect of the Dock. We have 8 Ages for a reason (hopefully 9 soon), so the Dock should mirror that journey.

I also agree with the points made by JMoney in respect of destinations, but for slightly different reasons. To my way of thinking why would any self respecting seaman conveniently ‘forget’ where certain destinations are on a world map? I would love the Dock to provide excursions to each and every destination unlocked through it’s evolution.

More destinations means less chances of getting the desired destinations you want. In this case less chances to get Rangoon's 3 diamonds. This would actually be a bad thing.