Rah'Zin v1.1.9.4 Feedback

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@klasperstanze

Admittedly: If I, who never balanced a game, were to balance one via patches, it would look like this:

With x(t) being the buff/nerf-funcion ofc.

For some reason CRATE decided to do it this way:

Graphs to describe the pursuit of balance? Where have I seen this before?

Oh, right.

@Ceno

Here’s an exaggerated graph of how we each respectively handle a skill/devotion/item/etc. that’s overpowered, with 0.5 on the Y-axis being ‘balanced’ and the ‘Balancing Iterations’ being completely arbitrary.:

And here’s one (still exaggerated) of how we each respectively handle a skill/devotion/item/etc. that’s underpowered:

Notice a trend? Cornucopia tends to be erring on the side of over-poweredness until balance is achieved whereas Crate tends to be building from the ground up toward balance. There are a multitude of reasons for this and when adoomgod and I first started talking about this mod – before we even had a name for it – the option of which approach to take was a topic of significant thinking and discussion. Ultimately our reasoning is thus: we’re sick of seeing so many things being so vastly unplayable or, at the very least, not being fun. So, for the time being, we may as well make everything completely usable, if overtly broken. Crate can’t do this. They’ve sold a product to over 400,000 consumers and if everything was way out of whack their product would be boring and likely acquire substantial negative reviews; hence, Crate takes the ‘less fun’, harder, but equally respectable path.