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[Suggestion]Small balance change to Esamir

So basically we've had now a minor refresh of Amerish, and a major refresh of Indar. While we can expect some more fixes to Indar, concerning Ceres Hydroponics probably, the next on the table will likely be Esamir. Hossin mostly suffers from the "nobody plays on Hossin"-syndrome, while Esamir has some serious issues that should be adressed first. Before Esamir essentially gets put into a content freeze (or however Wrel put it in his video), there are some minor changes that could be done to Esamir that would likely improve the continent.

First, change the starting territory a bit. Move Mani Bio Lab to the NW warpgate, letting that WG have 2 biolabs. Currently, it is possible for the eastern WG to warpgate touch the NW in less than 10 minutes, with only 2 minor bases to go through. The NW has to go through 3 bases, of which 2 are major (and one is an eternal pain in the ass, namely Northpoint Station). Moving Mani to the NW warpgate would equalize the travel time from continent opening to each warpgate, and put 1 major facility for each side to go through.

To balance this for the eastern WG, hand over Ymir to them. With the HIVE mechanics, it makes sense to move the Ymir to the eastern WG, since as it is right now, southern WG only needs to push 1-2-3 bases to get prime HIVE territory. Only pushing 1 base, Frostfall Overlook, gives the southern WG a territory where they can cram 3 to maybe 4 hives with 71% starting efficiency, pushing further north gives the S WG even better percentages. Same can be said with the eastern WG getting good percentages at the Ymir south and the Bulwark, however capturing the Bulwark and onward can be downright impossible, while south pushing to Nott is relatively easy in comparison.

This is obviously not meant to "save Esamir", however I imagine starting base adjustments doesn't require 2GB downloads, and could be done relatively quickly and easily. If there's controversy with one WG getting 2 of a major facility, while another gets 0, on Hossin the NW WG is almost automatically given easy access to the 3 Amp stations bonus, and starts with 2 Amp stations from what I remember.

Also something to consider, given how the biolabs are central to Esamir, and while a major Esamir refresh could take months, I'd ask that at least the biolabs get the similar treatment as the Amerish and Indar biolabs have gotten, get that pushed to PTS and then live, and THEN get started on the "real" major Esamir rewamp. From what I remember, the Indar refresh was around 830MB, given that Esamir is the smaller than Indar and has less variety in terrain, any Esamir patches ought to be smaller than that, and getting 2 or more downloads for Esamir would be more easy to swallow than 2 rounds of Amerish, that was almost 2GB I think.

Posted Jul 31, 2017, 2:26 PM UTC

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