While I concur with about everything you said, Pericles, the three GB's raised to L100 is what the joke is. For those with tons of FP sitting around to spend (like many of us here) it's a quick project to bring those to that...but the sad reality is it's just a drop in the bucket of what's needed to "defend" in GE5. Like my Star Gazer as well! Been great to have since it came out.
As I said,
I'm happy for those of you that view it as a challenge and are willing to take it on. However, it's a misuse of a long since established boost that needed no resurrection into "viability".
, and I mean it.
I am laughing all the way through GE5 every week using just goods and not spending much more than those who will eventually get GE65-73 "defendable" and then have to negotiate from there. Yes, eventually those players will move higher and higher and naturally through event building changes I may as well, but I'll still gravitate to attack boost because as nice as 1812/1633 is it still needs to be more for higher attrition as for some reason the swaps on 4SCs seem to be much more likely to provide attrition gain (more like 90% reduction as of late) and 3SCs can add 20 or more in a swap session now. City defense of 143/116 is not enough to do the first encounter in SAJM and I have nothing I'd like to give up to grow it.
The game requires offense for 80% of GE and 100% of the rest of the game. For those who like negotiations they see GE as 100% negotiations and GbG as something to dabble in when they can hit a sector that is going slow enough for negotiations. That means 100% of this game requires zero city defense to be successful.
I'll say it one last time, attacking with defense boost is ridiculous. It's not creative and it's got folks either completely turned off of GE5 or spending resources they may have had other plans for on a boost that assists with 20% of GE aka <1% of the game. That's why I find it humorous.
I stand ready and am currently investing in several players SBCs, TAs, and DCs. Nothing but a boost to me in FP and/or medals. Gotta thank FOE for bringing me more business via drop threads, however temporary it will be.
Meanwhile, I'll remained focused on exactly what I was focused on before this was released not the least bit sidetracked or phased and I'll continue to enjoy that greatly while I weed through the GE5 complaints I see from the cross-guild chats I'm in. Had to remove 5 long-time friends this week who went red following the release
- much bigger spike than I normally see, but more power to them in their new game or more RL time. LOL