Ashrem
Oh Wise One
We can probably go back and forth on this for a very long time if you like, but I understand it perfectly well.@Ashrem Now I am not sure if you understand what %-reduction means or not. For 100% reduction you need a lvl 30 timewarp and a bear no matter if the tournament cd is 16 hours, 14 hours, 30 hours or 1 hour. So I do not get what you would have changed,
It's possible you don't understand when one variable of any equation changes, if the equation has the same result, then some other part of the equation must change. There is no other possibility.
For the reduction at level thirty to end up exactly the same while beginning with a different starting point, the time reduction per level has to be smaller. That means, the cost of each level would have gotten me less reduction. In the case of the Timewarp, that value could in part involve the initial decay, but since that lone can't be enough to yield the same result, it has to also involve the amount of reduction per level. Either that would be flat, or they would make some other change to the Timewarp to make it more appealing. They would be retroactively changing what I got for each KP and each sentient good and each mana I put into the Timewarp. I might have been OK with that, or might have decided not to bother. Either way, doing now means they are retroatively altering the agreement between us which when I agreed to level to 30 was I put 1140KP, 75,000 Seeds, and 740,000 mana and I get a 17 minute reduction in my Tournament cooldown. Not a 15 minute reduction. That would have been a different choice for me and we can all guess, but no one (not even I) can say for sure if I would have made the same choice for each of the 30 levels I put into the Timewarp. Hence, the suggestion is taking that choice away from me by changing it to a different choice without any option on my part.
Further, a 14 hour cooldown to start means I no longer have to get a 76% reduction, because the bear alone is already saving 24 minutes per round on a shortened cycle. So now I only need the Timewarp to be at level 25 in order to get my rounds to less than an hour so I can do everything when I get up on Saturday and the next round before I go to bed on Tuesday and save myself 3 more levels of investment in the Timewarp. Or, if I get my Timewarp to level 30, my rounds are already reduced to about 16 hours total, so I no longer need the polar bear at all to get two full tournaments our of my boost buildings and I save myself a pet food plus that 3X3 space for something else, and can shred my polar bear into fragments if I want to waste a teleport, or just destroy it, having needlessly spent far too much time acquiring the 9 artifacts for it, so it is yet another value nerf.