Quote Originally Posted by Selephant View Post
Im trying to understand the apologist argument here, but its simply ludicrous.

You are saying we should not have assumed that elite conversion reduction would remain, but this would be predicated on knowledge of the conversions formula, which is not publicly available. So the suggestion is the wider playerbase should have known and made their race choices according to knowledge of a formula which is not widely available, so that they would know conversions is not related to "attack" (not even going to touch that one lol) gains and thus conversion gains into fort/prosp are unchanged"?

Amidst all of this devs are talking about bringing in new players with gimmicks like referral bonuses? How does that work exactly? You cant have it both ways. You can't cultivate an environment where only the "elite" with access to information regarding obfuscated game mechanics are able to make successful choices while at the same time trying to bring in new players.

Isnt it more ludicrous that you simple assume to know the answer without actually trying to learn the answer? And you can drop the tinfoilhat there is no elite group of people. There is just people that are more willing to dedicate time to learn the mechanics than others. You have several methods of getting the information as well, you can ask in the strategy forum, you can ask an admin to clarify how will it work. But that doesnt seem to be the case, everyone just assumes "Oh i guess that should work like this but I dont really have a clue".


Utopia used to be a game that people enjoyed figuring **** out now people just seem to want everything for handed to them.