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pretty nice changes. I might play Polytopia more often after the update drops
It's currently playable in beta
pretty nice changes. I might play Polytopia more often after the update drops
It's currently playable in beta
Kinda sad that markets don't interact with ports any more. It made city planning interesting
We thought about it, but we're finding it difficult to not keep it "clunky", so we went for "simple'
How do you join beta on Android?
Check the Discord for a link
That’s fair. More recognizable in the community, I do wonder, how’d you end up working for them?
Entirely on accident.
I'd rather not type out the story here because it's long.
They're already easily shredded thanks to their low defense. Not being able to retaliate is insult to injury now.
This is actually exactly what we want.
They're powerful support units, but can't hold their own if they're attacked.
I love how it’s Midja (or something similar) for everyone and then it’s Zoythrus 😂
They offered me the title of "Midjitree" (as in, 3), but I turned it down for the sake of being distinctive.
New change could make kickoo overpowered because they get two things in one starting tech
They aren't able to build a Port at T0, though, and have to wait a little while before it's useful
- Bridges were bad. Outside of quick connections ports were always better because units on bridges just get shot at by the other persons navy with no chance of fighting back and are a pretty big star investment. I think they're supposed to be a cheap and effective way to cross small bodies of water and they actually do that now.
- With bombers getting nerfed I don't mind this. Water exploration got toned down a bit as well with the ruins and starfish nerf it won't be as impactful as they would've been.
- Bombers were not fun at all. Whoever gets a navy faster just sends a few over the the enemies lines and suddenly they can't get anything going. While in an even battle they aren't that strong so they were really just a snowball unit. I think now they're underpowered because they don't snowball well but I would rather have a bad unit over and unfun one.
I'm amazed Cym didn't get nerfed. With Bombers and water stuff getting nerfed Cyms gonna thrive.
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Cymanti will get their time.
We're working on "baseline" stuff now.
Why do bombers still have Stiff now that they're nowhere near as dangerous? Their ATK is now equal to rammers, which can retaliate.
Other than that, good changes, especially the market. I was hoping for that change, actually, after seeing the same suggestion a few months back.
It's because we want them to be weak to stuff that gets up close. Scouts and Rammers should shred them.
I personally thought it would've been neat if the ruins kept battleships and that was the only way to still ge them, but this works too
Nah, the whole point of the PotO update was to rid the game of Battleships. :P
The company consists of three people I believe, Midjiwan, Zorythus, and Midjitwo (who I believe does music). I could be very wrong though
So I get that while not fully agreeing with the reasoning. There are already vast differences in resources between all of the tribes, so my question would be why not just tweak this to help balance it further? Yadakk, hoodrick, xin-xi, luxidoor and f**kquarion are all for the most part still unplayable.
Ps keep up the great work, love the game and The new beta is a great step towards poly-utopia!
Well, the Bridge and Market buff are part of rebalancijg Yadakk
Android?
Yes, you'll lose it, but you won't lose any ongoing non-beta games.
If I join the beta will I lose access to the current version of the game?
Depends on the platform you choose
Too cluttering? They take up the same space as a port. On top of that, you can still place a port on undeveloped farms. This just seems like a clear lose-lose scenario
That's his reasoning. He didn't like them or like using them, and wanted to move Coastal cities over to a full-fish economy.
- I agree on that but with this change be will lose the only water-resource that gives us 2 pop which was quite important for developing water based cities. Is it possible that we get a compensation for that, for example somthing like a "rich fishing ground" that gives 2 pop but disappears after harvesting?
Well, more fish should spawn in general since there's no crops.
Now, I can say that Midjiwan wants Coastal cities to have less growth potential than land cities. So, working as intended.
Why remove aqua farms? Removing them gains literally nothing, that’s just taking away a feature
Midjiwan wasn't happy with them, so he removed them. Found them too cluttering.
These seem like great adjustments
Because they are. :P
Finally, a bomber removed from that ruin but have they fixed the crashing when joining a game via link while in the game? (steam)
Should be fixed. Let us know if it's not.
Overall, it makes sense why they'd make these changes to improve balance and reduce the impact to the meta from Bombers. Neat little trims instead of sweeping changes. Couple specific changes that I found unusual:
- Removing aqua farms reduces the variety of water resources again, which is a little boring. It did feel odd that you had to access windmills in a totally separate tech branch in order to get a production building for it.
- Markets seem more valuable now that they're increased by the levels of each nearby production building. I'm inferring that means _any_ nearby production building, so if I have two tier 2 forges nearby I'll get 4 stars?
- Some of these changes seem aimed at reducing the maximum possible score for Perfection. Or making it harder to get bigger scores. Maybe the developers realized they were painting themselves into a corner with the wildly high scores from pre-naval update, but it is worth noting.