@Aeva First of all, I am not in any way, shape or form related to INNO. But you are probably right, I was trying to play devils advocate. That does not mean I don't belive what I said, because I do. But I did try to present my opinion in as controversial a way as possible, because I feel that this is the most effective way to lead a usefull discussion.
@galrond Thank you for your comment. We do seem to have clearly established that there several places where the formula does not work. But anything more in that direction would take a massive amount of chapter by chapter, resource by resource and wonder by wonder number crunching. If anyone is interested in that, it should be moved to a new thread.
And to return to the actual purpose of this thread, here is some feedback from me. Not math, not universal truth, not lies, just my own honest opinion.
1) I love the reduction to 1 fight per province. For me the main reason to play the tournament is not KP,spells or relicts, but the fun I have doing manual combat. However currently there are too many fights to be fun. I hope that this change at least will be implemented on all live worlds as soon as possible.
2) I like the fact that catering is becoming more of an aternative. I do, however, feel that both catering and autofight are boring. I would love to see a minigame for it, like we do in the spire.
3) I am glad that the KP gain from tournament is being
drastically reduced. I have never even played to province 20, but it still felt like I was getting to many KP. I have in fact stalled my game on live. Not because I was afraid of damaging my tournament score, but because it felt like I was moving to fast. I want to be able to see my city grow slowly and enjoy the architecture of each new race before moving on to the next.
And the redicoulusly high KP demand in chapter 16 shows that a high KP gain for some players can create balancing issues for everyone.
4) I do not particulary like the random battles. I do not hate them either, but I prefered the way it was before.
5) I like the increase in difficulty between provinces. It means that our succes will not be determined only by how many troops we have, but also by how good we are at manual combat.
6) I feel that the troops may need to be rebalanced. Every kind of troop should be the best possible troop in some situations. At the moment this does not apear to be the case.