Balances for July

[Firetooth]

I still like the idea of a "remove shields" spell. I'm certain valhall had a feature that could take a certain amount of hours off somebody's shields. Was it 3 or 6? I can't remember, but anyway.

[Shadow]

easy to code, if people want it. Not sure how useful it would be, though

[Firetooth]

I don't like how shields are indiscriminate atm. I think there is too little incentive to keep leaders beyond buffing atm, this could keep things a bit more interesting.

[Shadow]

let's see how the kill leaders attack buff changes the game first

[taekwondokid42]

As someone who has done multiple leader takedowns this game Firetooth, I'm not sure you are the right person to be complaining about how difficult it is to get past shields (granted, mine were down because I thought the game ended 24 hours earlier than it did -> result of checking the date at midnight and forgetting that the day had flipped).

That's like sevz complaining that it's too hard to lock land.

[Shadow]

that's actually the decent first leader takedown I've seen in a long time.

You seem to overgeneralize from isolated incidents ^_^ It's why we argue so much in development.

[taekwondokid42]

You seem to overgeneralize from isolated incidents ^_^ It's why we argue so much in development.

that's because isolated incidents are my only point of reference :P

but Firetooth did some takedowns on me in reg too, and pip got hit a few days ago on turbo. So I don't think this is necesarily isolated, though this takedown was certainly quite spectacular.

[Firetooth]

Yeah, all of those takedowns were when shields weren't raised. They just would not have been possible with shields raised in turbo, even at 1% it would still be very, very difficult. The problem with shields is they turn takedowns into a matter of team size rather then skill, as taking somebody with shields down just turns into getting half a dozen people to murder them. I think 3 people should be able to fully takedown any warlord, provided the land is not locked and they have the resources. That was always the number I remember needing before 3.0 (which is the last time I did a leader takedown haha).

[Ruddertail]

You know, I don't really like this whole "team size vs. skill" dichotomy. Maybe it should take more or fewer people to do a takedown, but building a team, organizing them, getting them all on Skype at the right time to work together. . . that takes skill of a sort as well.