[suggestion] Make ranking harder
Posted: Wed May 13, 2020 12:52 pm
I'd like to open up a debate. We were just talking about this in GC on telegram and I think there's a lot of people who will agree with me that ranking is too easy. I don't have the stats, but I'm estimating the validity of gen* to marshal ranks ends around day 3 or 4 as a large portion of the player base will have reached baron by then.
My suggestion would be the following:
- Make border training harder. We're 15 hours into this age and there's 10 barons. With harder border training the difference would be smaller. The harder border training would also make it much harder to rank up with pvp armies, making the choice of army and hero build more important the way I see it.
- Shorten the CF. Though I agree with the reasons behind the CF, 24h gives too much time. I think 18 hours should be plenty, and I'll explain why:
Say age starts at 0:00 UTC. Assuming everyone who's fanatic about playing the game sleeps 6 hours to maximise their first day, different scenarios would be as follows.
Start of sleeping anywhere between 0:00 and 12:00 UTC takes 6h away from the free training time.
Start of sleeping anywhere from 12:00 to 18:00 UTC takes a bit of free training and a bit of start of war.
Start of sleeping at/just after 18:00 UTC takes away from first war time.
No matter what time you go to sleep, you still have at least 10-12 hours to build an army. Casual players who don't want to take time out of their work to build an army would still have around 4 hours to build an army (8h of work, 6h of sleep).
Starting wars sooner results in rankers not being too far ahead of pvpers already and needs them to be careful earlier.
Thoughts?
My suggestion would be the following:
- Make border training harder. We're 15 hours into this age and there's 10 barons. With harder border training the difference would be smaller. The harder border training would also make it much harder to rank up with pvp armies, making the choice of army and hero build more important the way I see it.
- Shorten the CF. Though I agree with the reasons behind the CF, 24h gives too much time. I think 18 hours should be plenty, and I'll explain why:
Say age starts at 0:00 UTC. Assuming everyone who's fanatic about playing the game sleeps 6 hours to maximise their first day, different scenarios would be as follows.
Start of sleeping anywhere between 0:00 and 12:00 UTC takes 6h away from the free training time.
Start of sleeping anywhere from 12:00 to 18:00 UTC takes a bit of free training and a bit of start of war.
Start of sleeping at/just after 18:00 UTC takes away from first war time.
No matter what time you go to sleep, you still have at least 10-12 hours to build an army. Casual players who don't want to take time out of their work to build an army would still have around 4 hours to build an army (8h of work, 6h of sleep).
Starting wars sooner results in rankers not being too far ahead of pvpers already and needs them to be careful earlier.
Thoughts?