Yes, I’m back with the same topic, but this time, I’d like us to have a good discussion about it.
I think, if one day the developers have the time available, they should create a separate balance between the different types of game modes that there are, instead of it being one balance for all. You could do all kinds of very interesting balances without limits.
What do I mean by this? Well, since DE came out there is a permanent bid between treaty and supremacy (most of the time) to see how to balance the game. I believe that today we reach the climax of that constant bid, that the goal today is to play very defensively to buy time to reach Industrial and abusing very strong mechanics is directly the fault of the treaty balance, to cite an example, build many outposts, forts, walls, make revolution, have decks with 8 or more cards in industrial, etc, that is all things direct faults of the balance of the treaty and playing in the long run. At the same time, the opposite happens, there are civilizations that are too weak in the treaty, and that simply cannot be buffed, because they break in supremacy, and that’s the fault of the balance of supremacy. To cite the main example, there is the Skull Knight, when he was nerfed by the abuse of the Aztec FI, people went crazy (but mainly the people of the treaty) and now he is considered one of the weakest civilizations in the treaty, but that’s fault that the balance in supremacy did not allow it. This could be easily fixed, if there was a separate balance, if the SK has 5 speed in treaty, they would be acceptable, while in supremacy having SK with 4.25 speed is almost unacceptable.
If one day they decide to work on this idea and it is consummated, I consider that the quality of the game and the balance would improve a lot (which is very difficult, I would not like to be in the shoes of the devs atm)
If a road map is made and this is considered, plus everything that could be discussed in the forum and official channels like discord and steam, I think we could make a really nice game for everyone!
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