Dear voobly,
You are biggest (and best) Age of Empries 2 gamezone for this moment. You gave us a place to play, when official developers refuse us. You keep this game alive for a so long time. I, and I think most people here, are very thankful for it for you. I think what if not you many ppl won't play AOE2 today.
Most of modern games have an official support. And you are - our official support. In last some years were made a lot of amazing improvements , what we just can't dream. A hude tournaments appear to the game due to the sponsor.
Age of Empires 2 is a live game nowadays. It's live, but not living how it could be.
Everithing is fine, but... there is one more thing... And this thing is balance. It's good, but not perfect. I believe, what all top players can agree what fireships are not as good vs galleys, as they should be. Vikings with their own and team bonus are too strong on water maps, what makes water maps team games with random civs too annoying. What it'd be better to make walls not too strong (they should have less hp, or be more expensive, or be loger to build). Games with "full team walls" are so borring and annoying.
Yeah, where can be a lot of balance things, what one ppl would think as "should to be fixed", and others would say what "everything is fine". But there are some things, what are really-really inbalanced, and they should to be fixed.
I know, what voobly has one balance patch as on option. It's good, but nobody ever would play it. Because it's an option. Just imagine, what Starcraft 2 would have new patches as an option. Or dota 2. Or World of tanks. Or many-many other games. Developers there just include this patch in game client, and everybody should play a game on new patch. And that's a right way as it should be. I want to repeat what I said above - you are our developers. In you hands future of Age of Empires 2. And in your hands a way to make it better.
Balance patches not only fixes game balance "bugs", they also makes game more fresh. Ppl would have to adapt to new balance, maybe new strategies would appear, etc. Balance patches - are life, not a stagnation.
I ask you to include a balance patch in UP 1.4. So everyone would use it. Don't afraid to make a mistake - you always can fix it. Don't need to make a huge balance patch - ppl would afraid of it. Just make some little changes like:
- fireships faster
- less viking's team bous
- less hp of palisade wall
For example only this 3. Let it be the first step. If you make a change, what would be inbalanced - you can also remove it in next patch. I'm sure what you can find some experts here, who can make a small "balance team", which would confirm or discard this small changes.
Best Regards,
dfs
ps if 1.0b and 1.0c were an option, we'd stil play 1.0a.
You are biggest (and best) Age of Empries 2 gamezone for this moment. You gave us a place to play, when official developers refuse us. You keep this game alive for a so long time. I, and I think most people here, are very thankful for it for you. I think what if not you many ppl won't play AOE2 today.
Most of modern games have an official support. And you are - our official support. In last some years were made a lot of amazing improvements , what we just can't dream. A hude tournaments appear to the game due to the sponsor.
Age of Empires 2 is a live game nowadays. It's live, but not living how it could be.
Everithing is fine, but... there is one more thing... And this thing is balance. It's good, but not perfect. I believe, what all top players can agree what fireships are not as good vs galleys, as they should be. Vikings with their own and team bonus are too strong on water maps, what makes water maps team games with random civs too annoying. What it'd be better to make walls not too strong (they should have less hp, or be more expensive, or be loger to build). Games with "full team walls" are so borring and annoying.
Yeah, where can be a lot of balance things, what one ppl would think as "should to be fixed", and others would say what "everything is fine". But there are some things, what are really-really inbalanced, and they should to be fixed.
I know, what voobly has one balance patch as on option. It's good, but nobody ever would play it. Because it's an option. Just imagine, what Starcraft 2 would have new patches as an option. Or dota 2. Or World of tanks. Or many-many other games. Developers there just include this patch in game client, and everybody should play a game on new patch. And that's a right way as it should be. I want to repeat what I said above - you are our developers. In you hands future of Age of Empires 2. And in your hands a way to make it better.
Balance patches not only fixes game balance "bugs", they also makes game more fresh. Ppl would have to adapt to new balance, maybe new strategies would appear, etc. Balance patches - are life, not a stagnation.
I ask you to include a balance patch in UP 1.4. So everyone would use it. Don't afraid to make a mistake - you always can fix it. Don't need to make a huge balance patch - ppl would afraid of it. Just make some little changes like:
- fireships faster
- less viking's team bous
- less hp of palisade wall
For example only this 3. Let it be the first step. If you make a change, what would be inbalanced - you can also remove it in next patch. I'm sure what you can find some experts here, who can make a small "balance team", which would confirm or discard this small changes.
Best Regards,
dfs
ps if 1.0b and 1.0c were an option, we'd stil play 1.0a.