After debating on the impact of this new auto button and reading the comments here, I think it does have more negative consequences than positive. I'll try to be short
Pros: It does save a few seconds per battle
Cons: Loses more troops if not the entire battle
It surely is a good thing that Inno tries to save us some time, but:
Do we really need it? Here a comparison to what we already had:
- GE: we do at most 64 battles a week and surely won't auto lvl 4, so make that 48. Even if we auto all 48 and that saves us 3 seconds/each.... that's less than 2 mins a week.
- Cont map: even if we do 3 provinces a week (value exaggerated but let's consider worst case) with 10 sectors each and save 3 seconds/battle ... that's 90 secs/week
- Hood: Attack 80 hoodies/day (again worst case), that's about 28 mins a week. Significantly better improvement than the other 2 cases, then again considering full auto will cost us way more troops (as opposed to holding the unit back and then auto) - I doubt anyone will and can do it for more than a few weeks.
- GvG:
a) champ farming made easier (bad)
b) it will increase the gap between strong guilds (higher ranked players with Traz's lvl 50+) and weak ones. Players with high Traz's can afford to lose more troops/battle if needs to be, while it will be a suicide for those who haven't advanced that far yet. And that's where the big difference comes - if we consider a full tile at 80 hits, that's 4 mins saved per sector and we all know that in GvG even milliseconds matter. Just think of 2 guilds siegeing each other and whoever takes the other one's sector first wins. (happens all the time in my world). Now let's say guild A uses new auto button and guild B doesn't - that alone gives a HUGE advantage to guild A and almost a certain victory. Someone in the comments above said that no one forces us to use new auto button - I disagree - If guild B wants to stand a chance in GvG, it
HAS TO use it. (very bad)
Again, I very welcome changes which reduce the clicking - but I think Inno didn't consider all the impact such a huge change might have. If it's released live i think it will kill GvG entirely, and trust me there are still players who play the game only for that..