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CX LaE Game profile

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Apr 5th 2020, 0:04:56

The changes blow.
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m0bzta Game profile

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Apr 5th 2020, 0:25:09

they did
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m0bzta Game profile

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Apr 5th 2020, 0:43:28

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CX LaE Game profile

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Apr 5th 2020, 6:09:39

God that sucks.
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hkyhed Game profile

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Apr 5th 2020, 6:27:20

Did your top feed backfire?

CX LaE Game profile

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Apr 5th 2020, 12:21:51

Ask anyone around, son. I'm not a suicider.

After the first few grabs, even a halfwit can tell something changed between October and now. I guess I found out what it was.

It's a dismal change. It basically disincentivizes slow-playing while encouraging early grabbing to boost your landbase ASAP. Everyone is chasing the same land all the time so everything is perma-chewed up - seemingly worse than before the changes, to my recollection.
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trumpoz Game profile

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Apr 5th 2020, 12:29:09

Originally posted by hkyhed:
Did your top feed backfire?


CX plays a ridiculous C/I - he had the playing from behind strategy down.

CX LaE Game profile

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Apr 5th 2020, 12:36:37

^Bingo

ALSO! - Now, all strats have to grab more for the same acreage x that they usually would gain. Since few players around here are morons and rainbow, you're restricted to grabbing your own strat for max gains, otherwise you have to grab extra times to make up the buildings are you no longer receiving.

It keeps targets chewed up longer and deeper, hence the encouragement NOT to slow-play.

C/Is get hit the worst because they would have to grab other indies; the bot indies are the highest def-to-NW ratio, so no, that's stupid. And other indies can easily retal if they aren't crap players, so that's a bad idea.

Techers are similar. They have to maximize acreage per grab but once you're through the early day or two, all techers are chewed up or too low land to be worthwhile and, again, grabbing a decent techer player is a stupid idea.

*shudder* Terrible changes.
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UgolinoII Game profile

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Apr 5th 2020, 18:04:44

I think it's a great change, because suiciders topfeeds got nerfed.

This has nothing to do with me not slow playing ;p

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Apr 5th 2020, 18:37:43

Fix one aspect, break another :-/
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Marshal Game profile

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Apr 5th 2020, 19:22:19

you can't please every1.
Patience: Yep, I'm with ELK and Marshal.

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Hessman123

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Apr 5th 2020, 20:08:50

Originally posted by CX LaE:
Ask anyone around, son. I'm not a suicider.

After the first few grabs, even a halfwit can tell something changed between October and now. I guess I found out what it was.

It's a dismal change. It basically disincentivizes slow-playing while encouraging early grabbing to boost your landbase ASAP. Everyone is chasing the same land all the time so everything is perma-chewed up - seemingly worse than before the changes, to my recollection.


Yes the changes have made the game worse.. and everyone seems to agree, yet it stays the same and the changes blow

hkyhed Game profile

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Apr 5th 2020, 20:40:13

Originally posted by hkyhed:
Did your top feed backfire?


Originally posted by CX LaE:
Ask anyone around, son. I'm not a suicider.

After the first few grabs, even a halfwit can tell something changed between October and now. I guess I found out what it was.

It's a dismal change. It basically disincentivizes slow-playing while encouraging early grabbing to boost your landbase ASAP. Everyone is chasing the same land all the time so everything is perma-chewed up - seemingly worse than before the changes, to my recollection.


A simple yes would have sufficed.

CX LaE Game profile

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Apr 5th 2020, 21:05:22

I think you've confused the meaning of 'yes' and 'no'.

Do I need to explain them to you?
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hkyhed Game profile

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Apr 5th 2020, 21:28:53

Originally posted by CX LaE:
I think you've confused the meaning of 'yes' and 'no'.

Do I need to explain them to you?


Yes

ssj4goku17 Game profile

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Apr 7th 2020, 18:44:45

The bonus ghost acres for same strat does have some effect, particularly with indy bots generally having higher Def and less land (I think?). Also, they only build half of their land it seems so I want to say their nets don't keep up. I don't think it'd hurt to open up the ghost acre returns to all strats, even for the sake of balance since not all bots seem to perform the same on all strats.

That being said...keep in mind I was able to put up the 66mil C/I about a month and a half ago, with slowplay in this climate.

Gerdler Game profile

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Apr 7th 2020, 19:36:03

that is actually the NW record with the current changeset, so C/I is stronger than techer now.