The majority are not in favor of the nerf.the official polls are saying that
not me
and first round was 466!!! voters of which 153 liked it = 1/3 approx
round 2: 114 of 323 liked it = 1/3 approx
round 3: 104 of 301 liked it = still 1/3 approx
so I am not claiming anything that isn't proved
but where is your prove that people like the GEx changes ?
I conditionally like the addition of GE5 - i'd like it better if it wasn't all fragments all the time. I think particularly the top-end rewards for it are worthy of effort ; just that there should be more immediate-gratification-filler mixed in with them. And that the scaling with era is too high accounting for the reality that space age players aren't any more ready for it than say future era players.
did I say that ??
Fragments of Empires or Forge of Fragments
Kind of already have that with L8 SoH or Elephant - 1600 fragments required. Yeah, I get that you can place a L1 @ 200 fragments, but they don't touch my city until final level. ;0)I wonder how long it is before we get something that needs 1000 fragments to assemble
Thanks for the good laugh!!
Or at least some fragments of the poll?
To build on this, why not just instead of replacing the portraits with fragments, replace them with diamonds after you win them?To accommodate this change, simply redistribute the Forgotten Temple fragments from the encounter to the other big GE5 encounters
Much has bee said already so no need to rehash everything, let me propose a few changes to improve things.
First of all, the GE1-4 selection kit fragments need to be heavily rebalanced. Either lower the number required, or increase the number you get. Currently on live, if you combine all the buildings within each kit, you get 1.03 GE1 kits, 0.53 GE2 kits, 0.98 GE3 kits, and 1.21 GE4 kits worth of buildings each week. I think giving enough fragments for one each of the GE1-4 kits every week makes sense, you'd get more or less the same number of buildings. It is a buff compared to live due to more flexibility, but I don't think that's unwarranted or too extreme. The current GE balancing has been around for years, a lot has happened in that time, inflation etc etc.
Secondly, the diamonds nerf. Diamonds have been cut in half, from around 160 to 80 on average per week. Both for new and established players this sucks, especially considering this is one of the final remaining ways to get diamonds for free. I know that's the idea and Inno wants people to buy more diamonds or just spend money directly, but as a player it sucks. Another reason it sucks is that now GE5 practically requires diamonds to play unless you want to waste a lot of goods.
I think the diamonds from GE1-4 should be reverted to around 150, but I also think diamonds should be added to GE5. I think a great incentive to play GE5 would be for the final encounter to give a decent chunk of diamonds, say 150-250. It's a big reward, but requires a lot of effort. It makes it rewarding to play GE5, and I truly think it will make a lot more players try to complete it, rework their cities for it, etc. To accommodate this change, simply redistribute the Forgotten Temple fragments from the encounter to the other big GE5 encounters
I completely agree we can hope they will change something but there is a chance nothing will change. there is no way they did not know what they were doing and it is 100% a nerf.