The chgs kinda scare me but what do I know, I'm too new.....
After reading this thread I stall'd my research and just took a SS increase from 69 to 90 ( as shown in Baracks ). I'm ch 3. In regular provinces ( just checked ) a fight is impossible when SS is 90 vs 239 and they have 5+ tiles of soldiers..... Just that 1 increase basically screeees me, last week in 14 hrs between rnds, I just barely trained what I lost, and thats being logg'd on almost 18 hrs a day... now with 1 SS increase, my Orc/Valorian bldgs are much less worth it, and its gonna be a constant drain down on troops till I have to resort to instants.....
I personally like 4 fights per province because tourn is the ONLY place I can fight and stand a snowball's chance in hell of success. 4 weeks now I completed all tourn provinces/encounters. SS might not go up in spire but cater costs prolly will....
If all this is meant to help the casual player, then my god don't have a system that pushes ppl to overscout just to trade, making fighting impossible... and is Inno-Games gonna address the server mentality of collusion in trading ? most FSs require 1:1 or better trading... period.... that means the whole server's econ runs on production alone, thats stupid...... any economy has winnes/losers.....
What about 3rd party sites basically revealing every aspect of a Event before/during the fact ??? that ruins the difficulty and enjoyment of the event ? Force Fellowships to keep logs, on tasks.... making a FS an important resource.....
Yes I know this is a kinda pay2play game from Inno's perspective, but as with all these type of games free2play players have a role too... and as I see it now, they are not cherished as players.... New accts are the BEST chance for new revenue.... anything that makes the game too boring or too hard, too quickly = ppl , even like me, quitting after a month or 2, if not sooner.
I cant even get the game to stop crashing, when I log and see 60-70 items need'n collection..... if a player choses "LOW" on graphics, then even the collect thingy above the bldg needs to be STATIC, not an annimation.....
If systemic game features are already negitively impacting "casual" players", I personally don't see how going from 4 fights to 1 really does anything usefull other than hurting new players and helping old players that do 50 provinces not 6 ( like I do )
I beat the Spire my 3rd time trying, 4 weeks in a row I crushed the tournament, my city runs itself if I wanted it to..... I'm just wondering, I've basically beat the game, havent I ? If every advance is 1 step forward 2 steps back, in difficulty, where's the incentive for me to go ANY further ??? Spire/Tourn is where the rewards/diamonds are..... who cares about chapters....
There are many things that would improve enjoyment for players, without ruining the pay2play model or the free2play model.... Seriously what do players do when they have done all the chapters and have all the expansions ????? Do they just quit ? Things are already slanted too much to the "log once a day" player..... all my good bldgs have NO early collect, thus are basically useless... yes I said useless !!!!!!
I don't understand why there's 3 different SquadSizes... Spire/tourn/reg encounter.... or why you want me to wait till ch12 just to do realistic trading ????? Its 10000% because I want to trade, that I'm over scouted and over provinced to the point fighting is a NO GO..... for me its cater only.................. except tourn, and now it seems you're taking that away from players who enjoy the system now....
6 provinces 6 rounds = 144 fights... I need all of those to learn and hone my fighting prowess... how does chg'n that to 36 help me ?
With no global chat, and no global trading, I'm already super bored, my city is as efficient as it can be, and when I need info, wiki/stats/gems/architect seems to be lacking that info too often..... there is nothing to do in my downtime between SPire parts, or tourn rounds.... If researching and getting AWs only make everything that much harder/more boring...... then I'm never researching anything for the next 6-9 months while I build up my acct.
so please , explain the rationale of this chg actually helping, rather than just piss'n of a bunch of current players ( not me )....
BrinD