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    Age 76 Proposed Changes Feedback

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    Elite off numbers have been nerfed. Ok.
    Attack Gains Formula - Land component of gains formula will be removed and revert to a Networth based gains formula only. - Good, very good.

    Dwarf is too weak. Buff elite to 7/5.

    Faery 3/9 elite and +5% population is overkill. Maybe 3/8 with bonus population or no population.

    Human elite could be 8/3.

    Heretic -thief loss needs to apply to successful ops too.

    Warrior military sci bonus or offense bonus could go down a bit, it was very strong this age.

    Undead is still unimpressive. Give them the '-50% food required' bonus it had on the test servers.

    Could very well just remove bocans if halflings are back.

    Sci could be linked to acres.
    As a starting point I suggest limiting scientist experience to 3+72+96=171 hours, and then nw=hours*(acres/400).
    Up for debate if acres/400 or less/more.

    Topfeed needs to be nerfed.

    Onslaught honor gains bonus swapped with Godspeed gains bonus, and keep Godspeed at -15% attack speed.

    Do not remove attack speed bonus from wars. Just keep the bonus (-10%) after 12h.

    My personal touch:
    New dragon: Onyx
    Suppresses target kingdom's ritual (no ritual bonuses while dragon is alive). Cost/hit points equal to Emerald, or somewhere between Ruby and Emerald.
    With the advent of overcasted rituals, it can be a tactical weapon to tackle those 130%+ Godspeeds.
    Onyx vs Onyx war would basically be the old war when we had stances and no rituals!
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    Halfling made a comeback w/ a nerf. I'd consider perhaps a -5% BE as opposed to -10%. That's pretty painful.

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    Resilient is the only ritual to have a negative effect (-40% gains on attacks you make). Maybe reduce the -gains on incoming attacks for resilient and add another deterrent factor to make it attractive. Something like:

    Resilient -15% Gains on attacks into your Kingdom & -10% Honor loss from attacks & -15% Military Casualties on defense

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    Definitely agree that topfeeding needs nerfed. Gains vs bigger provinces and gains vs bigger KDs are too high.

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    Nerfing offense while boosting defense and increasing attack times looks like a horrible idea to me. This way we'll get wars like we had the age with the 8/9 dwarf elite...

    This age we ran a high turtle strategy with Starcraft which worked out pretty well. Next age it would even be more easy to grow a wall of unbreakable provinces because attacking got nerfed so ridicullesly hard. With these changes I might as well run Elfs/fearies/halfling combo with rogues/heretics and mystics and skip out on attackers all the way. Just max out magic and defense and LL yourn way to victory....

    My suggestions:
    * Remove the change to attack times in war.
    * Either nerf offense or boost defense. Not both at the same time.

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    ^^Thats what Avian is for, or Tact
    Heck change Avian to cant use stables only

    All changes are perfect.
    Dryad WH 3, no QF .. no longer a reason to play. Maybe 1 Pris sent per 4 troops

    Give all prov who's name starts with David +3% BE
    Last edited by sl0hnd; 18-04-2018 at 17:09.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Milkman View Post
    Nerfing offense while boosting defense and increasing attack times looks like a horrible idea to me. This way we'll get wars like we had the age with the 8/9 dwarf elite...

    This age we ran a high turtle strategy with Starcraft which worked out pretty well. Next age it would even be more easy to grow a wall of unbreakable provinces because attacking got nerfed so ridicullesly hard. With these changes I might as well run Elfs/fearies/halfling combo with rogues/heretics and mystics and skip out on attackers all the way. Just max out magic and defense and LL yourn way to victory....

    My suggestions:
    * Remove the change to attack times in war.
    * Either nerf offense or boost defense. Not both at the same time.
    def didnt get that much of a boost though, look at the nw on the leets on all defnsive leets. for anyone not in the top 3-4 kds attackers will just have an insanely lower nw/acre than hybrids and pure t/ms relative off/def numbers compared to nw should remain the same.

    as for attack times, agree though. need to lower base attack time from 16 to 13 or something if they'll be no more war bonus. its WAY to hard to run a war if attack times for non avain or tacts vary much outside of 11-13 hours.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Persain View Post
    def didnt get that much of a boost though, look at the nw on the leets on all defnsive leets. for anyone not in the top 3-4 kds attackers will just have an insanely lower nw/acre than hybrids and pure t/ms relative off/def numbers compared to nw should remain the same.

    as for attack times, agree though. need to lower base attack time from 16 to 13 or something if they'll be no more war bonus. its WAY to hard to run a war if attack times for non avain or tacts vary much outside of 11-13 hours.
    Yes. Also - probably not listed is that thief/wizard nw increased to 6. That's huge.
    War should feel faster than 'regular' gameplay. T/Ms get a 50% boost basically, the attack speed bonus can't simply go away.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Avenger View Post
    Elite off numbers have been nerfed. Ok.
    Attack Gains Formula - Land component of gains formula will be removed and revert to a Networth based gains formula only. - Good, very good.

    Dwarf is too weak. Buff elite to 7/5.

    Faery 3/9 elite and +5% population is overkill. Maybe 3/8 with bonus population or no population.

    Human elite could be 8/3.

    Heretic -thief loss needs to apply to successful ops too.

    Warrior military sci bonus could go down a bit, it was very strong this age.

    Undead is still unimpressive. Give them the '-50% food required' bonus it had on the test servers.

    Could very well just remove bocans if halflings are back.

    Sci should be linked to acres.
    As a starting point I suggest limiting scientist experience to 3+72+96=171 hours, and then nw=hours*(acres/400).
    Up for debate if acres/400 or less/more.

    Topfeed needs to be nerfed. This is a priority.

    Onslaught honor gains bonus swapped with Godspeed gains bonus, and keep Godspeed at -15% attack speed.

    Do not remove attack speed bonus from wars. Just keep the bonus (-10%) after 12h.

    My personal touch:
    New dragon: Onyx
    Suppresses target kingdom's ritual (no ritual bonuses while dragon is alive). Cost/hit points equal to Emerald, or somewhere between Ruby and Emerald.
    With the advent of overcasted rituals, it can be a tactical weapon to tackle those 130%+ Godspeeds.
    Onyx vs Onyx war would basically be the old war when we had stances and no rituals!
    I agree with most of your suggestions except a couple. The honor gains on Onslaught are the only reason to take it over Godspeed. If you give Godspeed -attack times and +honor gains, you have absolutely no reason to take Onslaught, EVER. That said, I do believe Godspeed should not have both -attack times and +gains.

    Sci should not be linked to acres. That was total cancer and everyone should be glad that it's gone. It opens the door for all kinds of abusive behavior, just as it did in the past.

    Other than that, I agree with pretty much the rest of your post. No need for Bocans (at least in their current state) if Halflings are going to be as strong as these proposed changes make it seem.
    I was just like you. My parents died. I have to be strong for Serah, so I thought I needed to forget my past. And I became Lightning. I thought by changing my name, I could change who I was. I was just a kid. Lightning. It flashes bright, then fades away. It can't protect. It only destroys.

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    @ avenger yea. the relative power of attackers and t/m's should remain the same next age in all kds but "top" wars where your 100% acre limited. in those wars offense was an issue so the overal change is fine.

    Attack times though yea, no way to fix that especially when your talking a chained attacker on 0 acres, puting a kd to 16 hour attack times just means you horribly mess up time tables on everyone.


    As for whats "Strong/weak".

    Orc is a bit strong
    -given other relative attackers since +25 gains is pretty big and their offense is still decently high...i'd lower gains to 10% but trade it for no +ME deaths.

    Warrior is hard to get away from
    -just compounds off a little, i'd go back to warrior having +1 general and the ME science v any actual offense buff....or at least remove its 2 spells, it doesnt need the spells and flat bonus

    Feary seems pretty strong.
    - Im not sure its gonna take that much of a boost given off/def #'s buuut i'd still make it less of a "Wall."
    You cant easily lower their wall capability w/out making them just weak if you lower def to much. So i'd remove -10% econ and give them receives +30% (25-35 is fine) more theif/magic damage. Means if u want a "safe" t/m from attackers then u risk eating t/m ops to bring u down. seems pretty reasonable.

    Bocan seems weak
    With the reintroduction of halfer as the real supertheif AND the huge hit to the nw and cost of bocan leets they seem a tad off. i like the concept of specs->theives as a a/t but with a 6/0 offspec and a 4/7 leet they wont have any kinda of ability to attack and have a def if they run enough tpa to even ns. i'd push their leet to 5/7 so they can at least "risk" using a few to attack with.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Zantetsuken View Post
    I agree with most of your suggestions except a couple. The honor gains on Onslaught are the only reason to take it over Godspeed. If you give Godspeed -attack times and +honor gains, you have absolutely no reason to take Onslaught, EVER. That said, I do believe Godspeed should not have both -attack times and +gains.

    Sci should not be linked to acres. That was total cancer and everyone should be glad that it's gone. It opens the door for all kinds of abusive behavior, just as it did in the past.

    Other than that, I agree with pretty much the rest of your post. No need for Bocans (at least in their current state) if Halflings are going to be as strong as these proposed changes make it seem.
    I thought he was talking about the NW of the Sci Guys being linked to acres. I could be wrong, but that is how I read it. So science effect wouldn't go up from it which was the abused part.

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    Is anyone considering the implications of honor gains for attackers with attack times getting longer in war? Just seems like the new changes will make it even harder for attackers to get honor. Can we increase the honor gains on attacks and/or decrease the honor gains on ops?
    I was just like you. My parents died. I have to be strong for Serah, so I thought I needed to forget my past. And I became Lightning. I thought by changing my name, I could change who I was. I was just a kid. Lightning. It flashes bright, then fades away. It can't protect. It only destroys.

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    Is there any way we can see how many troops we kill while defending ? It would be nice to see the differences whiles getting attacked / especially with Wrathful smite on.

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    I may be interpreting the war attack time point incorrectly, as my interpretation doesn't match Walhalla has been posted here. I understood it as we would no longer be able to subtract time from attacks during war (using the +/- hours function).

    Removing the ability to subtract time is a bad idea. More casual players (or those that have spouses that would murder them if they got up in the middle of the night to make an attack) depend on that function to adjust their attack times, mostly at the start of a war, when the full war time reduction hasn't phased in.

    Of course, if it means we won't get a reduced base attack time in war anymore, that is also a bad idea. A 12hr base attack time just makes sense. It fits in naturally with many people's schedules and it makes return times easy to remember. Also, I have to agree with an above post that war should move at a faster pace than time spent out of war. Longer attack times means people won't feel the need to log in as often, which reduces engagement with other players and the game.

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