Looking for Pro Replays

We have been lazy in 1.03. This is due mostly to balance issues. Many do not wish to play, and the games that do go on are usually one sided and end in a crash.

We only have good replays from 1.02, which won't run with 1.03 patch.

None of the better players have been playing seriously, or at all, in 1.03 due to balance issues.

I seriously hope this gets fixed soon. A new balance patch (at least some hotfix, it doesn't really need to be 100% perfect) should be doable in less then a day. Devs: Please bring a small hotfix soon

Translation: the "better" players relied on features which the developers have since changed to be more in line with their idea of what makes a fair, fun game.

C'mon, put more effort into it. Question their sexuality, mess up the grammar, make suggestions of bestiality. You only got two parts right to this, staying a million miles away from anything approaching a concrete example and implying the exact reverse of the cause of the problem.

Right so the dev idea of balance is you must get tradeports, resoruce income is secondary/meaningless, and only TEC is allowed to have easy early tradeports without leaving themselves open for a rush.

No badken, we are not crying because something isn't to our liking. I play random, even post patch where TEC is clearly the favorite, because I love all 3 factions. I want each to have their own unique strategies. When one strategy is clearly the favorite, and also circumvents a huge part of the game (like neutral extractors and resource extraction techs) then I have problem with it. And when one faction is clearly the best in doing said strat, then I really have a problem with it.

The truth is that in 1.02 black market worked more than 1 way, now it does not. Selling resources to the market is stupid, as is anything that increases your resource income where you could instead increase your credit income. For example, with 600 credit 50 metal and 100 crystal I can increase crystal extraction by 5%, which would in a game where I have 2 crystal a second income be equal to .1 crystal per second. Or I can for 750 credits 100 metal and 125 crystal build a tradeprot which can fetch me between 1.1 to even 3 credits a second. Tell me which one is a no brainer?

But I need the crystal to build stuff right? WRONG. In 1.02 crystal was de facto limiting agent. While it was not perfect because of random ice or volcanic issue next to your homeworld, it worked better than having credits be the only limiting factor. If I need crystal now I can buy it for 330 per 100 if I wait, 550 for 100 if I can't wait. Those are pretty good rations considering credits are 10x easier to come by, as you can calculate from my previous paragraph.

SO yes the game is imbalanced. No we are not making crap up because we think we are the best. We are speaking the truth because we love this game, and we want it to have multiple strategies for success, not one golden brick road, and a few dusty trails that may lead to victory against a total noob.

dupe

*sigh* I've realized the game is unbalanced to people who don't know proper counters.

We're still the best in 1.03. But it's not fun due to only one strat really mattering now, when in 1.02 there where many ways to play.

thats so true had one like that yesterday and i and my teammate where winning then
POOOOOFFFFF!!!!!!!minidump gggrrrrrrr

Yeah I guess pro replays would be pointless since everyone would be doing the same thing huh?

Yeah because the better players always spammed siege frigates and Illuminators... oh wait.

No, what you must mean is that better players always depended on having a really crappy (by comparison) economy to power their... ohwait.

No, what you're really saying is that it's okay for the TEC to be the only competitively playable race - most people find that unacceptable.

Well, if you showed us the boring replays with the same strat happening, I'm sure more people would demand a faster balance change.