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Woah you’ve got a nice voice, I had no clue.
Thank you!
Woah you’ve got a nice voice, I had no clue.
Thank you!
Are you suggesting we sue for misuse of our IP? :P
and how about it giving 1 pop but only 1 per city? i don't think you really need more if you place them well and 1 pop for each could be a decent boost to their bad eco
another idea i had was that they could start with the marine life tech. it's not an eco tech, so it won't make them a t0 tribe, but it'd allow for some interesting mechanics - accessing deep water really early on and an option to rush navigation and grab starfish. not sure if this wouldn't be too much of an eco boost (maybe not - because of how little vision they'll have early on, so they won't be able to grab too many of them), but imo it's definitely something worth trying (and maybe adjusting later)
Originally, that's how the Atoll functioned and they had the power to go onto deep oceans from the start.
We removed both of those during the testing period for balance.
All of them
I mean this is less about being Polaris and more about being a water troop so I thought they should at least dominate in water
I don’t play Aquarion so this is not really a problem for me though
Well, yes, but we walked a fine tightrope with water balance.
Aquarion should be good on the water, but not so good thay no one can compete and the game reaches a stalemate.
Doesn’t that make Aquarion a lesser Polaris in almost every way?
Yes, and that's intentional.
They are not Polaris, nor should they be, even if there's a little bit of similarity.
Why not make it heal?
Isn't that just water Mycelium?
Is the update for Polytopia+ (Apple Arcade) being worked on?
Yes
I get your point, so I would really think something like the "Grow Aqua Farm" tech mentioned in the post to keep Aquarion comparable to other tribes.
Thanks for answering, by the way! You devs are truly amazing in keeping this game fun and challenging :D
We'll keep an eye on how people play with them and make changes as necessary.
Polaris freeze water whereas Aquarian flood non-aquarian land with the exception of mountain. So the dynamic is reversed, but fair enough I guess.
I've only had a full game since Aquarion rework flooding tile felt quite the labor for not that much benefit.
For Polaris, ice spread is "their core mechanic and what everything of theirs is built around".
For Aquarion, flooding is "a nifty thing you can do" or "a tool in their arsenal". We want it to be something relatively difficult to do and to get rid of.
How about one atoll per city, when placed it floods the tile it's placed on and/or tiles around depending if you want to keep the water/flooded requirement.
We originally had it as one atoll per city, but it was really restricting, so we don't want to do that again.
Concerning the flooding, we want it to be a relatively difficult thing to do. We're making an active attempt to keep them from becoming "water Polaris".
Wouldn’t coastal cities being easier to upgrade than land cities make more sense for aqua? Though I agree placing 30 atoll’s down wouldn’t be good, but maybe fertilizing shallow water.
Potentially. We'll keep an eye on it
So, not having pop is intentional.
Originally, they did give 1pop, but we didn't like the idea of "place down 30 of them to grow cities".
Ultimately, we wanted most pop generation to come from Aqua Farms and stay true to the fact that we want coastal cities to be harder to upgrade than land cities
So am I
Ah, that's why.
Apple Arcade is coming, but updating it is a little slow.
I don’t have the update as an option. Is it not out on mobile?
It's been out onobile for 2 days now.
Are you on Android or iOS?
Tell me more, i haven’t updated
Please update
I’ve seen them use cloaks. Not necessarily effectively, but they do use them.
A while back, when cloaks were first introduced, they’d use them a LOT. It was annoying. I suspect they toned it down deliberately
We did
Fair point
IMO it’d be stupid to just nickle-and-dime people just so they can TEST a tribe, but as long as it unlocks forever even after beta I don’t see too much of an issue with it.
This isn't our doing, but just how Testflight works.
The Android beta, for instance, makes you buy the thing.