To fill this cap, balancing is essential. And what is way more complicated than the balancing itself, is to make the player not recognise it to much.
Specific the suggestion to the Devs in this case could be to balance softer, that player won’t feel this much differences anymore…
Will this be a solution in future?
Balancing is essential and it is one of the hardest things to do in games like this. If sth. is broken it has to be fixed.
Most players will agree on that because they want a well balanced game as well.
(e.g. the recent nerf on iridium charges: afaik many agree it was necessary and got used to it quickly)
If “Not recognize” means to be more smart in hiding changes from the community (by doing it step by step and not all in one step), that wouldn’t be the solution, but part of the problem.
If you meant nerfing it, but not that much, it might be ok.
As I said before there has to remain some benefit for the players from playing Invasion. If there isn’t all the work they put in it is in vain.
To me PVE is no option, because it is too repetetive and therefore boring. So as an alternate way of getting credits, Invasion has been a good choice for me. And it’s an alternative to PVP as well: Sometimes you don’t want a teamplay mode, or it’s one of these days where nothing seems to work in PVP…
The common player has no statistic data about the game. So it’s always hard to judge if there has to be balancing or not.
I spent 8 days 18 hours time in battle, playing since october 2014. I’ve maxed every t3 and am between t4/t5 now. Since my personal testing period of the game at the beginning I play with a licence. So I had a lot (too much) time for playing the game. So to me the progression seems ok. Maybe it even is too fast. So I’d be fine with some less drastic changes.
Other players who have more real life might disagree. :001j:
Besides the fact a lot of people are thinking Invasion is no use anymore, it’s a lot about the way the devs communicate with the community.
And it’s a lot about confidence. We have to be able to trust the devs. If things you payed for are affected by changes it’s very likely to cause trouble. And imao prem ships / the scanner / some DLCs are really expensive.
Negative changes here and things just seeming to be unfair (->Arms Race) will remain on our minds for a long time and they do accumulate.
(Scanner: I think they will set up the loot again and if it’s enough - or sth. eles will be done to revaluate the whole Invasion mode - I’ll be fine with that. If not, one solution might me to give us the opportunity to decide if we want to give it back for the GS we spent. Let’s say the devs could tell us when they have decided that the loot changes are final and then give us two weeks in which we can give it back. Most people won’t really expect to be refunded in real money…?!)
A part of the solution could be to announce changes and not to exclude them from patchnotes. And explain it more detailed why sth. has to be changed. There have to be some buisiness secrets and the company has to make money, agree on that. But the more they let us know about the reasons, the more likely we might accept certain changes.
And what about testservers if there are major changes? Or more statistically significant (personalized) surveys that rely on the different types of players?
I hope the devs understand that most of the critical posts contain an appreciation of the game and their work. Sometimes the posts might be harsh because peolpe are just upset. But as far as I am concerned I wouldn’t write that much if I didn’t like the game and if I had no confidence in the devs at all.
