
Originally Posted by
kassikas
The problem with gimping NPC farming specifically in order to make the maximum army size smaller is it would make Civony a game you watch, instead of a game you play.
Yes, Right now you can have hundreds of thousands of archers in every single city. Yes, that makes it so you can withstand just about any attack. But what happens if you make it so that a city can only sustain a maximum of one hundred thousand troops?
Well, after you get 10 cities, and use up all your city's food production by making a garrison, there is really no more reason to play, other then reinforcing a city that comes under attack and a tower screams. That amounts to sitting around and waiting for a red light to flash.
If you are not making your cities stronger some how, it is completely pointless to keep playing.
The best way in the world to balance the existence of massive armies isn't to gimp NPC cities, it is buffing Rally points. Make it so they can send out 100k per level, not 10k. In the end, a level 9 Rally point would make it so you can launch 9 900k armies, instead of 9 90k armies.
Poof. Having 500k archers in a city doesn't mean anything when I can send 300k archers, 100k pike, 100k ballista, and so forth.
If they gimp NPC cities without creating another way for people to build up hundreds of thousands of troops, and farm medals with little in the way of casualties, many many people will quit.
I know I would. Why should I keep playing? If 70k archers and 20k warriors is a huge army that eats the crap out of all of my food stores, then I beat Evony back when it was still Civony.
Heck, I am already running out of goals. I capped a 10 NPC, and in a couple of days I will have a 90k ballista army I can send at someone just for laughs. Unless they boost the drop rate on scripts to make a 90k catapult army possible in a week or two, I have pretty much beaten Evony in about 5 days.
Gimping people's ability to make massive armies would kill Evony dead. After a month of playing and maxing out your title, building massive armies is all there is left to do.
The problem isn't that people have massive armies. The problem is that people with massive armies are unable to use them on each other.
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