The only useful thing the food price change actually accomplished was to improve a problem inherent to the Empire Wars game mode. Of course the market will be overpowered in a game mode where you start with a complete feudal age economy not tuned to any particular strategy. It does not mean there is a need to introduce clumsy changes to the core of a 25 year old strategy game. Perhaps the change is good for Empire Wars, I am not sure. However, It does need to be reverted outside of Empire Wars.
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This wasnt motivated only by Empire Wars
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Saracens picker spotted 11
Empire wars is the only place where the change might not be stupid. Every other motivation has critically failed. It has actually made it more difficult to counter fast castle. Is there some other goal that was accomplished that I’m not aware of?
Indeed. However, as a Saracens picker, I can adapt. I lost 300 ELO immediately upon the update, but now I use more wood/gold units and got almost all of that ELO back. My biggest weakness seems to have been the enemy using the market to fast castle, so I will likely end up even more powerful than I was before once I get more used to the change. I don’t think that anyone can describe an intended consequence of this change that was successful, which is why I believe it is stupid. Outside of Empire Wars, that is.
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Market abuse had taken over random maps in gemeral after Phosphoru showed the potential it had
I really hate that everybody buy food on nomad maps before the market nerf
Nomad is one of the worst maps for buying food, if not the very worst… There is an excessive amount of hunt and fish. As a Saracens player, I always hated nomad because I knew that I would have absolutely no food advantage whatsoever. I suppose this is why things have to go to shit, because people are formulating opinions with no basis in reality.
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Phosphoru isn’t even a heavy market player. He uses the market mainly when things go wrong, and when forced to use the market his chance of winning drops substantially, even before the update. This is how the market has always been used. The market is actually more useful to the opponent of Red Phosphoru, as the best counter is to get castle age for yourself once you realize what is happening, which now costs substantially more because of the market change. The situation you are describing is actually an epic own goal for this change.
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