sadmachines
Warlord
- Joined
- Aug 18, 2010
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- 123
It is true that many of the 'open beta' games have not been filled up with 200 players, not even by the time the game is ending.
Well, the way the joining/friends thing seems to work is that in you available games, it shows you ones your friends are in, which still have space. Open joining seems to cut out about 170ish.
Yep, tech mazes massively nerfed, now only 1000 science per completion. Unless the value of them increases over time, they are almost worthless now.
However, maze moves also got massively buffed. Collecting some 900 science in a single harvest gave me 22 maze moves (on Mass Media tech).
This balances out the massive nerf you get when completing a maze. In fact, using my 15 harvests, I was able to complete 12 tech mazes in about 40 minutes (and win the Complete most tech Mazes contest).
Those 12 wins give about 25% of what 1 win used to.
2ok rewards for a maze is overpowered. 1k is way underpowered. It's a shame there aren't some numbers in between 1,000 and 20,000 that could be used.
More moves = good
1k reward = not good
Game needs more work. I think I'll wait till Beta is over before I try again.
Is it just me, or did the mazes also get more difficult when they made that last update? Maybe it's a separate issue, but I think the mazes require way more moves to complete than they did a week ago. Back then there was a reasonable chance that I could reach a beaker with 6-12 moves and that would be enough to chain some beakers together and solve the maze. In recent days, the beakers have been useless and it takes 25+ moves to solve a maze. Anyone else experiencing this?
If that. In Multimedia, 1k prize is hardly even worth bothering with. It's like when you get 10 gold from the caravan.