by CommissarGaunt » 28.04.2013, 20:24
So in short. Sit there. Shut up. Collect gold. Wait for the fair and equal share of gold. Don't be aggressive. Twiddle your thumbs. Get a big ship. No weapons. Wait some more. Get weapons. Pussy foot around waiting for someone to make a mistake. Punish the mistake. Wait. Wait. Wait. Wait. Eventually take down the harbors and towers once enough mistakes have been made.
That doesn't promote any kind of competitive game play. If that's your idea of battleships then I have to say it's gotten rather... stupid. Times change sure. But sometimes the change leads to an evolutionary dead end or stagnation. While not dead, it's definitely stagnating. Battleships, and other games of this ilk, are supposed to be based on competition. Item and ship comp, honing play styles and strategies. Not this. Never this. I can see why a lot of the more competitive people from my time left and moved onto other things. Like a real competitive moba.
What your whole idea is no longer competition. No strive for farming, killing, or otherwise being combative. Because it's equal for both sides to just sit back well out of range, get levels, passive gold, there is no incentive to get gritty. To punish the other team for sitting back and passively getting gold. Without the need to farm to get items and ships, there is no conflict. Imagine no empire gold, and a tuned back passive gold gain. It encourages fighting. Push back the enemy so they can't farm. Put them in a deeper hole. Daring plays. Tower Dives. More 1.2k and 3k ship plays. Aggression. Conflict. The reason for games like this. But no. War game turned into a cow clicker for the first 10+ minutes of a game. Exciting. Big ships with one big skill, that drop and run. Entertaining.
Oh no! someone on one team is getting all the farm! Travesty, I'm now broke as all hell and can't do anything. Right, sure thing. Don't break it down into a comp that gives one or two people straight dps, one supportive role, one additional surplus to fill a needed gap. Ship only? Great! Designated Tower breaker? Got ya. Ranged support to harass on the rush in and out? Sure thing! Need a net? Got you covered. Oh no! Invis! Scope. Well shit, the enemy team is using the same freaking ship comp every single freaking game! Try something new. Oh wait, I forgot, it's not the meta. Wah wah wah. You're farming, your a detriment to the team, wah wah wah. -toot toot- Fail boat.
Feel free to criticize and or debate. Cheers.