Design Spotlight: 2.5 Design Highlights

[Gambrinus]

totally agree with you on these points.

 

[Aurelius...]

People choose a nation for a variety of reasons. However, they choose a nation based on an existing game balance. When the devs make a significant change to the balance between nations, they have taken something of value away from some players, and given something of value to others. Those negatively impacted by these balance changes have a grievance. An easy solution would be to offer a free or discounted nation change, perhaps for a limited period of time. I can say with near certainty that if someone recently purchased crowns to change to France, Apple would refund the purchase price of those crowns.

 

[Redgar]

Attention BHG! Those changes applied without my balance notes will change gameplay to total closeapps. Players will not only closeapp to save medals when loose attack, but they ll also closeapp to steal resources to spend less army. Not saying that we are still surrounded by cheaters, so in fact it is another buff for them. Pay/cheat-to-win = quit for many of us.

 

[polo1967]

I'm just waiting for someone to explain how I can get more points for attacking someone 30 levels lower than me (l'm level 93 gunpowder 1660 league points), but can only get 5 for attacking someone at level 115 industrial age with a nearly maxed out village.

 

[Gambrinus]

don't worry, soon all opponents will give your +1/-39 medals

 

[Denquin]

Always you, that is the one that is negative.

 

[Denquin]

I'm in the gunpowder age and I'm having nightmares of mass-produced heavy tanks.

 

[Redgar]

Yep; my 10 seconds candies break through everything in IA too. Should I ask devs to nerf it? )))

 

[Redgar]

And 1 hour game session for a mobile game is conceptually wrong. Fire the guy who offered that, even though your stats may show players are playing longer. Now they at least may take a break after quite annoying 30 mins active play.

 

[Nathan Win]

Most epic post of the forum thus far.

 

[maggiepie]

French didn't receive a nation nerf- they still retain their 20% train time reduction. TB was nerfed for ALL nations- and French still have their large, inappropriately applied, advantage. TB and raiders simply aren't an exclusive French bonus.

Anyone having changed to the French specifically for the -20% training time bonus can rest assured, you still have that huge bonus.

 

[maggiepie]

I agree with you, ravenlord- just not so much on the TB duration increase (on that I agree with atramar). I'd rather pay a little less for the 30min blessing than a bit more for the hr as it gives me more flexibility in my time to play. If I have more time I'm ok to spend for two back to back blessings as opposed to perhaps wasting 1/2 a blessing if I don't have the time. But, I'm inclined to believe this was exactly the intention- another way to slow down game play- in that, perhaps we may be less inclined to pay for the TB because it costs more and we may not have the full hr to invest in it.

 

[maggiepie]

Totally agree with your point on the TB time.

But, no AI improvements will come- they work as intended, it slows down game play.

 

[Denquin]

I dunno, maybe. I just fear what will happen when I enter the enlightenment age. I'd have to face planes and tanks...

 

[maggiepie]

Don't be scared little squirrel I've been in EA for a while now and over the past two weeks I've had 49 attacks; only two of those brought a few tanks, and one of those also had a plane. I'd say this was in the 800-1200 medal range. I'm not sure where you like to play, but at this range I've not had crazy problems, and for me I always hope to get a PT so my base isn't usually open to attacks.

 

[Denquin]

I'm a legit player..

 

[Aurelius...]

Maggiepie, I reread the post, which is here:

The Training Blessing is also receiving some balance tweaks. The cost will go up slightly, the bonus will go down slightly, and the duration will double. The biggest impact will be for those who are playing as the French; this combo was so powerful as to be considered an unintended exploit. The Training Blessing combined with the French nation power made troop training speeds too fast compared with to other nations. On the plus side, the Training Blessing will now apply to Factory troops, so speed up those Heavy Tanks and get them to the front line!

I took that to mean that the way the french bonus and tb bonus were applied would be adjusted. Upon rereading, you may be correct. I don't know.

 

[Aurelius...]

This is in regard to Redgar's list on the previous page. I meant to comment on his post.

 

[Aurelius...]

It's based on comparative medals, not comparative levels. Personally, I think it's a bad system. The highest possible advantage and medal awards are given to high level bottom feeders with maxed armies. I've got a pretty tough base, but I can't tell you how many times I've been 2 starred for 13 medals by level 150+ with lvl 30 generals, heavy tanks, blimps, etc. (The equivalent 5 star loss would be 33 medals.) Oh, I'm currently lvl 98 with about 2400 medals.

Ironically, I give up 13 medals for a 2 star loss to a lvl 163 attacker (65 levels above me), and I would get 1 medal for 5 starring the same person's base. Hmm… Well thought out system… (I suppose I could drop medals and attack lvl 33 bases…)

 

[MadFury]

I can't wait to see what BHG developers mean when they say thing like 'the bonus will go down slightly, and the duration will double'. So far every time they've doubled any blessing they've also nearly halved it's effectiveness.