The "Mono Stacking" Problem

[Triumph Jordi]

This is why I posted a list of everything that needs to be revised in the current game:

• City Structure incomes need to be rebalanced.
• (S)PI income needs to be rebalanced.
• THe Empire Tree needs to be rebalanced.
• (base game) Tomes need to be rebalanced.
  • ESPECIALLY the T5 tomes, all except Arch Mage suck now.
• Magic Materials need to be rebalanced (Cosmoflux and its Materials).
• Ancient Wonders need to be rebalanced (some are disgustingly easy).
• Form Traits need to be rebalanced (Tough+Resistant).
• Society Traits need to be rebalanced (there's like 4 actual good choices).
  • Excluding the obscenely broken Cult of Personality and Swift Marchers.

• Disagree
• Disagree
• Agree
• Always ongoing process. All Tomes have been divided in their associated DLC's for the Expansion Pass 2 updates
• Disagree
• Disagree
• Maybe
• Maybe

This update was also released in between DLC windows, not sure how they managed it though.

Because there were 6+ months of development time between Dragon Dawn and Empires and Ashes. Dragon Dawn released early in the middle of Q2 instead of Q3 and Empires & Ashes released in the middle of Q4. There was a need for something in between to keep momentum going.

 

[Triumph Jordi]

Roger, yeah I agree about T5 being a one tier too many. Did devs actually tell why, 'cause I remember Tom talking about this but he never explained why just that they had to do it for some reason.

We've explained it a few times. Within the 4 Tier paradigm there were a bunch of units at T2 that overperformed and a bunch of T3 that underperformed. We introduced a additional Tier between T2 and T3 where we could fit those units without the need of a huge rebalance for all the units.