yes, that's just my opinion. "You’re thinking along the wrong lines you know, you’re failing to take into account something very basic."
Powerplay Balance issues (once again)
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yes, that's just my opinion. "You’re thinking along the wrong lines you know, you’re failing to take into account something very basic."
Ahh. Well, we have been asking for rebalancing since pretty much day one, and often times the argument against it is "you're just asking for balancing because you're behind and don't know what you're doing".
We clearly know what we're doing, we're outperforming the powers with far far far superior bonuses, and now we're being told that we can't ask for balancing because we're ahead.
i never said something like this before.what i can read is that you and others in this thread have the feeling of being treated unfair (which i do understand), i'm just sayin' that some "unbalanceness"/unfairness may work as an incentive for mahon and the alliance (at least it does for me concerning the alliance, and a few posters in this thread have said the same), and that the ever ongoing debates on "balance this-or-that" in all parts of the game very often don't take into account, that "balancing" something can work as a malus in effect (see above) or make things boring.
i would very much back a suggestion saying "give us a special "malus" as we are the alliance!" (like i said: a medium adder or hauler or a bucaneer orca as an faction specific ship for the alliance, or restricting mahon to undermine enemy systems by trade...). but yes, this is just my opinion.
you want to have it balanced. go for it. but please stay number one even after it is balanced.
I agree with you. I mean, hey, people, Antal of Utopia has even less bonuses then Mahon, but this Utopians really enjoy every small success of teir Power. So, for me, it is great joy to see Alliance Power on top of rating, despite all odds.
If there were more bonuses for Mahon, we may end with hordes of merit grinders - that is terrible. I prefer to enjoy elitism of being Mahon supporter.
Merit grinders are exaggerated. Arissa gets close to 9 free fortifications every week thanks to them. Both Arissa and Hudson have guaranteed expansions thanks to them.
This is why Hudson has risen in the rankings again. His organised population realized that they just have to control preparations and fortifications and the rest will happen on their own. Arissa was late to exploiting this and paid for it.
Yeah, its a shame it didn't work.
Aisling isn't even getting attacked by the other 3 Imperials for her stance on Imperial Slavery.
Of course not. It'd be unfair if the Empire could be easily undermined by all other 9 powers. No power can be easily undermined by all other 9 powers. Well, except Mahon, but that's because FDev needed one power to be hit with the stick for everything
That's entirely down to the poorly thought out mechanics. Undermining through piracy is ridiculously difficult in comparison to normal undermining. The freighters you attack don't leave after you use a hatch breaker on them but continuously attack you (thus forcing you to kill them for -40merits), the collection drones don't work properly if you're manoeuvring and the police turn up so quickly that you're lucky to collect more than 1-2 tonnes. I'd love to be able to attack Aisling, but the mechanics have made it not worth the effort. This meant that the only way we could oppose each other was through useless prep wars and after the first couple of weeks we gave up on that as a waste of resources and decided to unite against our common foes.
Yep, exactly. Which is a bit silly, since it means that the mechanics influenced the direction things went towards.
And it has dumbed down the story-line a lot in return. Which empire with senates has ever remained united in a situation where a clear successor to the throne doesn't exist?
If anything, if the "all powers aren't supposed to be equal" argument holds any merit, then the whole "treason" mechanic shouldn't apply to the Empire. At least in its current state of affairs. The Federation powers work under the same constitution so it makes sense for them, but the top down structure of the Empire would perfectly allow them to attack each other.
I agree, when they increased the merits to 5 per ton that was a good start, but doubling the other undermining merits from 15 to 30 made it pointless again.