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04 Jan

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Originally posted by crujones33

That’s even worse. You have given players a unit with the ability to overcome the limit of the number of troops they can have. It needs to be easy to counter that. Or there needs to be a different way to enforce troop limits. Maybe a maintenance charge of stars if you exceed the troop limit.

Well, right now, the primary counter to Daggers is "finding the Cloak before it drops its payload". We want the Infiltrate action to be strong as motivation to sniff out those Cloaks (and to use Cloaks effectively).

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Originally posted by Common-Ad5017

But cloaks are usually used in high level cities that gives the opponent many stars? And now you are telling it isnt already good? You wanna buff it more

We don't want Daggers to be too easy to remove because we want the reward for using a Cloak effectively to be pretty great.

The biggest counter to Daggers is finding the Cloak before it can infiltrate. After that, you're on your own.

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Originally posted by Euan213

Tbh i like cloaks, its knights i take issue with. Persistence being unlimited is just not fun to me, either to use or have used against me.

We recommend that you spread out your troops, then.

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Originally posted by TheMatrix2025

That would make cloaks more annoying; swordsmen cannot be one hit by anything

To be fair, Daggers aren't supposed to be easy to remove.

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Originally posted by Penguinmanereikel

The best nerf I can think of that can at least reduce the minesweeper aspect is to let cloaks and/or mindbenders also detect the vague direction where enemy cloaks are. Or increase their cloak detection radius with different icons for each distance.

We tried that first suggestion first, and found it too limiting.

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Originally posted by ViciouSquirrel

Ok but you still need well over 8 stars worth of units to counter a single cloak

The primary (and intended) counter to Daggers is to find the Cloak first and stop it before it makes Daggers.


03 Jan

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Originally posted by allmyfreindsarememes

Knight spam was the meta for a long time. Then It wasn’t. Now you have to to make sure your cities aren’t overrun by cloaks. 1 step forward, 2 steps back. What are your thoughts u/Zoythrus

What do you mean "2 steps back"? Knight spam was awful and deserved to get replaced.

Cloaks aren't even meta. They're just a tool.

Now, note, we are planning to improve the way that AI use Cloaks, so it's not so spammy.

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Don't worry, we're aware and looking into solutions.

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Originally posted by thewirereal

Oh, don't worry, we know.

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Originally posted by Electrical_Split_435

The community manager said it in the discord.

Can confirm


01 Jan


28 Dec

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Good work as always, Keys!

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    Zoythrus™ on Steam Forums - Thread - Direct
Have you tried updating drivers or your OS?

27 Dec

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Originally posted by TheBoiWho8Pasta

My theory: The Ancients ruled over the other tribes then (or atleast they were the most prominent) until the strongest opposing tribe then which was Vengir, attacked them and usurped the throne. Which can only mean one thing, this image happened before the Vengir tribe was banished by the coalition of the other tribes. When Vengir was the most prospering tribe still. Dang this sh*t becoming Game of Thrones bit by bit. We even have the Targaryen's (Elyrion) the White walkers (Polaris/Gaamis), and the Stark's (Bardur). Now what? We're getting Valyrians (Ancients)?

Have you read the other blurbs from the past years? That should help clear stuff up.

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Originally posted by Miserable_Tone5866

can only wonder, on a scale of aquarion to cymanti, how altered will their tech tree be, judging by their looks I'd say quite

We can't tell you. :)

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Originally posted by Fire_Warrior22

This makes me think that the reason why Vengir were pushed into the wastes by the other tribes is because they either become too strong during the war against the Ancients or were simply too violent and militaristic

I can confirm that at this time, Vengir finishing off the Ancients was heralded as a "good thing" by everyone else, as Vengir was one of the group of proto-tribes that fought the Ancients.

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Originally posted by Secariel

colour cameras in polytopia confirmed, now give us guns, there is no more excuse

Sorry, let me rephrase that.

This recreation depicts pre-banishment Vengir