Are Icicles too good?

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Re: Are Icicles too good?

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SuSavage wrote:This game is about domination (recources, territory, etc), not about peacifull hippies.
I would argue it is about both.
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Re: Are Icicles too good?

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SuSavage wrote:You have time to claim it all now, or fight for these places later. Rightly? I think yes.
Those can be done, yes, but I don't see how that explains making one of the new resources massively more valuable than the others. If it reduced the remaining time by 50% I think it would be fine, but the instant study makes it amazing. Maybe it's balanced by a much slower regeneration rate or something, time will tell how that works.
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Re: Are Icicles too good?

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I also think ice spires and abyss smokes are unbalancing, but to be fair the HHP healing leaves are far worse than both.

All of them should decay in 2 hours or so, that would make it less dramatic.
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Re: Are Icicles too good?

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loftar wrote:
SuSavage wrote:This game is about domination (recources, territory, etc), not about peacifull hippies.
I would argue it is about both.
I agree with you. But peaciful hippies continue to play and they do not care about equity in sharing of resources, politis, raids.

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SuSavage wrote:You have time to claim it all now, or fight for these places later. Rightly? I think yes.
Those can be done, yes, but I don't see how that explains making one of the new resources massively more valuable than the others. If it reduced the remaining time by 50% I think it would be fine, but the instant study makes it amazing. Maybe it's balanced by a much slower regeneration rate or something, time will tell how that works.
I like new system. You can do all what you want and do not care about death and stats domination. Stats cap and new items for quick leveling it's good. The new style of play Hafen, old is not relevant. This is how i see this game now.
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Re: Are Icicles too good?

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Mother of Pearls are way too good too. Anyone who found one of them day one got a free 40,000 lp in just over 5 hours.
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Garfy wrote:Mother of Pearls are way too good too. Anyone who found one of them day one got a free 40,000 lp in just over 5 hours.
It's not like you can't catch up
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sabinati wrote:
Garfy wrote:Mother of Pearls are way too good too. Anyone who found one of them day one got a free 40,000 lp in just over 5 hours.
It's not like you can't catch up
40 000lp in early game takes few days. Its quite OP start.
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sabinati wrote:
Garfy wrote:Mother of Pearls are way too good too. Anyone who found one of them day one got a free 40,000 lp in just over 5 hours.
It's not like you can't catch up
4k LP in a few hours is massive when most people are still studying cone cows.
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Re: Are Icicles too good?

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ven wrote:All of them should decay in 2 hours or so, that would make it less dramatic.
Most of them do, in fact, decay. I'm not sure how long you can store them. The Travel Weariness leaves seem to be an exception to this, unless the devs just forgot to add that to the description.

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