race balancing

[Shadow]

i dont think anyone who isnt a stoat has won since the changes occurred

i think academy needs to be reduced or the other races need a boost

[kell]

I won the first round on the new server with wolf

[Shadow]

forgot about that

oh well i still say stoat is overpowered

[Peace Alliance]

i agree, i've been mulling some things over in me head

[Gen. Volkov]

Marten in reg is still underpowered, at least compared to stoat.

[Shadow]

i dont think the problem is that races are underpowered - most have viable strats. i think the stoat is just overpowered

perhaps lowering the ratio req for academy to like 70 but you cant academy over 100 ratio?

some other possibilities are:
reduce the feast and loot missions output
make academy have a huge loyalty cost
give stoats a -loyalty bonus
all of the above :-D

[Peace Alliance]

The fixes i've made on turbo haven't gone to reg yet because reg doesn't reset. I am thinking i'm going to apply a few changes to reg too but there will be lots of warning before i do

[taekwondokid42]

Wildcat is certainly underpowered.

Even when you have 100 mil loyalty to work with you still cannot make it up to more than 75% efficiency of rat or stoat indying.

Thats another thing. The stoat seems awfully good at indying. Perhaps its troop income should be lowed a bit?

[Peace Alliance]

wildcat is actually doing quite well for me right now on turbo. But i';m using a strategy that hasn't been mentioned before for it...

I think a lot of the races that are underpowered just need to be properly "exploited". The game was practically a year old before anyone even thought up leader-massing...

[Shadow]

i think you may be using a similar wildcat strat to the one ive been working on for the last 4 rounds :roll: how do yo u think fire clan got 380 million skiffs stored? 250 million of those were from me, and 90% of the rest were interest :-D

I'll compare notes with you after this round if you are interested

LOL@tkd using pressgang on rats and stoats

[Peace Alliance]

heh, hopefully we'll have the skiff thing fixed soon

[Shadow]

noo dont do it.. i havent even posted my strat as my contribution to the archive lol. the wildcat's ability to mass skiffs is the only thing that lets it compete with dirty indiers and dirtier food massers :-P - i havent even had a chance to try it as a fortress strat yet with all the theme rounds

it may be on par with indy for stoats, i havent run the numbers there yet

[Peace Alliance]

I didn't say i was going to lower skiffs

[Shadow]

what do you mean by fix the skiff thing then?

[taekwondokid42]

LOL@tkd using pressgang on rats and stoats

I never pressganged rats and stoats,
I pressganged skiffs...

In fact, I haven't masses anything besides food and money and skiffs since the first round I ever played...