Peace Life after Re-balance

[SiuYin]

With 3200 medal, I normally being attacked in 10 minute
And now not being attacked for whole day

good job re-balance

 

[vincentdang4]

Same experience. One of my accounts sitting in Empire League has an unprotected City Center (no traps, no defense nearby). Used to get a peace treaty as soon as I log off. Now it takes as long as 12hr to a day for someone to attempt a snipe. Game has become peaceful for high level bases. Kind of boring really.

 

[Manifesto]

My CW base hasn't been attacked for 6 days, not even medal droppers.

 

[skychan]

They've already all medal dropped.

 

[danron1376]

i'm in cold war and the last real attempt (not medal dropping) was 7 days ago which failed. i lost 4k oil 10 days ago in my last 'real' attack

 

[Parmenion]

I’ve switched from a mixed army to raiders following the change so I’m lower down now but on my way down I did notice less attacks on my base.

 

[phil_dee]

48 attacks in my defense log, all of them for zero stars (most are medal droppers, there are a few weaker players who used a small handful of units). Level 255ish, sitting in the 200-600 medal range

 

[Saruman the White]

Perhaps it's the deep breath before the plunge!!!

 

[Alanswiss]

Funny , I haven’t been attacked for about two weeks now....even the medal droppers don’t drop by as often.......which means I haven’t had to change my attack processes, as I don’t need to try and replace any loot lost to attacks.....it’s all become a lot less interesting and a lot less fun .

 

[oddin]

i am being attacked more or less 20-25 times per day. Every single attack is medal dropper. good job!! when are you gonna listen to your community?

 

[Persia]

Peace? Yes, that sounds about right. I’ve switched to Japanese and intend to go full defence on my wonders. I probably won’t even bother upgrading my offence until I have some sort of surplus — that means perhaps not even a blacksmith upgrade — because it’s just so reliable to use only raiders and loot everything I need, I mean, it’s exponentially faster. Archers get one-shotted by towers that are a full age below them and probably don’t even have all the boosts of the Towers library technology behind them (shouldn’t matter), supply carts have stupid AI that makes them a constant liability and forces me to run Germans to compensate for their terrible strategy with rallies, ballistae run off in their own direction (though I guess that happened before and the only reason they’re less effective is because buildings have more HP), and horsemen get hit hard by castle and some towers, so if they get hit by a ballista it’s basically a death sentence.

Keep in mind that many of these problems were present prior to the rebalance, just that the improvements to defence buildings have made my troops even worse. Now I understand what people mean when they say that barracks troops are now irrelevant. They really are, and I’m quite honestly impressed with Tin’s insolent declarations that “we are pleased with the way the reforms have affected the game;” it just goes to prove that the developers have a blinding lack of understanding for the playerbase’s concerns. Here’s why I say that.

Dropping horse raiders near resources is one of the most brainless strategies that you can employ, much like the HT “strategy” popular after the rebalance. It’s not even due to “lazy players” that these two are so popular, it’s the fact that the cost so heavily outweighs the benefits when using barracks troops other than horse raiders...meanwhile, I can drop raiders and occasionally a wall miner down and loot hundreds of thousands per battle. That gives me no incentive to compete for medals in the slightest, and my base is well-constructed enough to the point where nobody with a serious army even considers attacking me. I log in frequently and collect from my farms/caravans, meaning that nobody’s going to hit me with raiders because there isn’t enough to be raided without trying to go for mills and markets, which are heavily defended. I didn’t even separate my farms or spread them out to dissuade potential attackers, I just plopped them all down in one area, and I still haven’t seen a serious attack since I began playing on this account. My defences are still Classical, apart from my castle with max-level medieval generals (it’s only level 5, though), and I’m upgrading them now.

Hope you’re happy, Nexon, because my strategy probably won’t change for a while. I don’t have to put in any effort to win loot, only stars, and I still get to watch my city grow as quickly as time allows. Multiplayer is dead, and the rebalance directly killed it.

 

[Manifesto]

Multiplayer's dead? Sounds like it's alive and well for you.

 

[pckrn]

to be fair, horse raider rush was the most effective strat for preindustrial ages even before the rebalance. and there were no attackers in the early ages either even before the rebalance

 

[Alanswiss]

Raiders going for loot has always been a good tactic unless you are bothered by medals .....with these changes , it’s become even more of an easy choice to make ...cheap to retrain and the ratio of loot to full on attack is almost as good as a full on attack ....You were rarely going to get those NTG's anyway

 

[Persia]

Most effective, maybe, but I could roll over bases with an actual army. I was wrong in the sense that MP is lacking bases to attack — it can feel like that if you’ve been searching for a while and everyone has barely any loot, but because I have no other troops other than what’s available in the barracks, I don’t actually have any opportunity to try to “strategically” play, because bases have too much HP for me to clear, as I said, and horse raiders are literally leagues above any other sort of composition with regards to the loot that you can get and how quickly it can be obtained.

I’m running FC now as well, let’s see how long it takes someone to five-star me after I redesign my base. This will be a fun time.