11-04-2021, 02:07 PMhonkerrs Wrote:

11-04-2021, 02:00 PMcaltroit_red_flames Wrote: I'm fully in favor harsher regression, let's do it!

I've offered ways of incrementally fixing new metas popping up. Do you just believe that's not possible or do you believe that the people who would be put in charge of that would do a bad job?

All I've seen you say is that "we will make periodic balance changes". Sweet that sounds great on paper but let me just reiterate again Why "just balancing" won't work:
1) teams that are bad at tactics will still be bad. Tactics and sliders are a big driver 
2) we blame HO for being biased. Can't wait for the balance team to have people on buf and ham for people to bitch at when suddenly their archetypes are OP
3) we can't even do things fast enough like the index, trading cards, punishments . You really expect a balance team to decide on balancing to prevent a meta from forming? This isn't a dig at those departments, this is a for free website, but just letting you know what in reality will happen

1.) This is a huge issue, and unfortunately the only solution I see is removing tactics/sliders.

2.) This is pretty simple, we just need to have multiple teams represented in the Balancing Department.

3.) I take exception with this point. I'm not saying you're digging at the devs, but I think this shows you don't understand software development. Which is fine, 99% of people don't. Trading Cards and the index are both projects that require specialized skills that generally require you to attend a university to work on, those aren't things the average person can do. That wasn't a matter of HO moving slow or organizational issues, it was literally that all of the devs working on the index already have 40 hour a week jobs and the last thing we want to do is come home and write more code for website that is supposed to be a fun hobby. But we did it anyway. Punishments not being done fast enough is certainly something you could use an example of lack of organization.