Balance is pretty good. I'd probably liken it to something around 0.8 where we had some units that were generally overpowered and needed to be fixed… however these were things that were only discovered after watching 1000 games or so. Its testing that we can't do until we get it out into the playing populace. We still had very competitive games back then… but it wasn't as refined as we are now. Also the presence of the ladder and other competitive efforts means that we can't really do the same "testing on the fly" like we did back then.
I actually think that quite a few players will use the era when the new stable comes out. A lot of the older ones have been waiting for this for quite some time, and its exciting to play a new faction after several years of playing default. However its just not there… and since our release schedule is a little slower than before (and less people play dev as they did in that period of development) I'd rather us no get into a situation where we have an obviously broken match-up (like saurians skirms in 0.7.9, or thugs vs UD somewhere in the 0.8 range) then have people just go to classic. Again I think your suggestion has a lot of merit, its just not there yet. I think one year of playing, and the good stewardship of happygrue/wintermute and turuk, and we could have it as you want it. On 2014-02-03, at 10:28 AM, Nils Kneuper <crazy-ivano...@gmx.net> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > You are right that it makes sense somehow, the only problem is that several > smaller adjustments will be required. The problem is the earlier development > releases will not get much playtesting, so I see this is the only decent way > how we get several players to provide feedback before we get into the 1.12.x > RC state (with the start of compatibility). > > I would prefer to have a good idea about the Khalifate balancing already in > 1.12.x. If we come to the conclusion that this really does not work out and > things are by far too unbalanced for it to be the default for "normal" players > in multiplayer we can probably still change it back to something different. > > I just see that many players will just not use the "Default + Khalifate" era > resulting in us not getting much feedback and what we need now is feedback. > Plus this faction is one of the greatest new things we have for the new stable > series, so IMO it should be prominent. > > Yes, for (very) competitive tournament games it is likely that in 1.12.x the > "classic" era would be used.´ (or "old default" or however you call it).
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