CrazyWizard
Well-Known Member
Balance is what you make of it. if it's "out of balance" then you do something that makes it go out of balance. in the end you decide balance.I am not quite sure how bringing the residue badge to a better balance would cause the slumming of the old FA.
Do one path on each map is a fairly moot point in that there are lots of choices about how to do that and there is quite enough of all badges with fairly minor adjustments to be able to that, however for FA that wish to compete in the FA, well, you will need to convert land to level 1 workshops and level 1 manufacturers, and put out extra level 1 that are fully leveled. But I think whether you do that is really limited by what you can get from the residue and the degree to which you are will to burn your tournament for an FA.
but to anwer your question.
If you can make lets say 100 residue badges, then you need xx worshops / factories to complelent those 100 badges.
Now lets day "for balance" we make it 400 badges, you now need 4x the amount of workshops/factories to complement 4 times the badges.
So the more you can make of the weakest link the more "slumm" you need to complement it.
Residue is for now the weakest link and therefore it decides how much of the rest you need. there is little point in "collecting more" of other things that you could use because of the weakest link.
Also do not forget this is the first FA in this new format, you can bet your ass that in the next one more fellowships will be much better prepared.
For some groups this also might be the perfect opportunity to do something with all the diamonds they collect in the spire between FA. and I have already seen players with 1500+ CC to expect more of those kind of players.
So next time we might see much crazier scores than this time, and still some very decent slumms.
Plenty of fellowships got taken off guard by these changes, but for a run of the mill fellowship I find this variant so much more fun for every member of a fellowship compared to the former ones. It's also doable for most "active fellowships", and create a challenge for the smaller ones to work at.
Off course I do understand this is a shock for the most active FA fellowships so far. they dailed in there workflow and now they need to adapt and it feels strange and unnatural. it requires more "city" and less slumm. but with adaptation they will again go crazy soon enough and build ridicule scores as well.