a proper re-balance
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by screamingslave
Dear: Admins
I know your busy and you wont read this letter, really its just for my own frustration to be vented.
Your game needs to be rebalanced. The new player is like the new employee in a union shop. He has no chance at good vacation days/overtime opportunities/not getting laid off etc. until his co-workers leave, either by firing or quitting. Only once many have left will he have senority enough to get the best day for vacation. Until that happens he will be stuck having his vacation days sniped by other workers until he is left with a cold day in early december or late january.
The same is true for battle hero medals. No matter how hard the new player trains, now matter how many battles they fight, it will always be very very easy for the long time player to take the medal away.
I dont propose the normal re-balance where you just eliminate an advantage in an instant.
What i suggest is diminishing returns on strength training (even using gold) with all players falling on a scale between 200% training effect and 0.01% training effect. Your newbie would get 200% the first day. Where your highest strength player of the day would get 0.01%. Everybody else would get a % of their training distributed along the curve from 0 strength to the over 9000 were now at. 😛
a slight weight could be added to the beginning of the curve so that the trip from 200% down to 100% gets you farther along the strength path than the trip from 100% to 50% and so on.
in this way there is still incentive to train, to maintain that "top spot" however the newer player still has a "chance" to slowly creep towards the top.
This also would not affect your gold sales (on the contrary it may increase them as old players pay to maintain their elite status)
Option B: which probably speaks your language more... extra gold training that costs 0.5 gold but gives 10-20 strength weighted along the same type of curve so that 9000 strength guy gets only 0.5 strength for his 0.5 gold but everybody under 2000 gets the full 10-20.
PS. while i'm pretending your listening please make it so that when i write a long message it saves it to a temp file like gmail does in case this page times out or you decide to log me out or whatever other random crap happens whenever i write an article and loose the first copy....
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It seems to me that this used to be the case in the old version of the game. When you reached a certain level, the strength gains tapered off. I seem to recall that being the case.
At any rate, I have given up on any notions of winning a BH or god forbid, a CH medal. I just take solace in the fact that my contributions, though small drops in a big bucket, are something...and that is better than nothing.
As long as there are players who can generate 10-15 million influence in one battle, it will indeed be that cold day you speak of, before we see a lesser light win the prize.
i have to admit with the addition of daily achievable bazooka's and Energy bars it is now possible for the prudent saver to accomplish a BH medal even with almost no strength.
But there will always be the 9000 strength 5000k influence per hit player sitting by ready to snipe it away... 🙁 so unless you save 33 bazooka's so you can do 495000 in one shot it feels hopeless.... 🙁
but i fear that the advantage a bazooka gives a young player is just nullified by the advantage an energy bar gives an experienced player.
Coupled with the ease of saving energy bars vs. the ease of accidentally using a bazooka and its easy to see how the game still favors the old folks! 🙁
I think that a better way would be to limit BH medals to 1 per player/per campaign, or better still, 1 per player per 24-hour day.
how does that help smaller players get bigger to catch up with the runaway of players that have played for alot of years.