11-04-2021, 03:18 PMRankle Wrote:

11-04-2021, 02:30 PMgoldenglutes Wrote: I personally just think it's going to be a neverending cat and mouse game, just like how IRL security researchers are constantly trying to fix exploits that are developed by hackers

I don't know if there is a good solution to introducing more build diversity and player agency, but I think that harsher regression is the best solution to most of our problems and would:
1) introduce more parity at the top of the league since dynasties like HAM/BUF will no longer last 10 seasons
2) lowers the timeframe for team rebuilds which will make GMing for a bad team much less daunting (since number of GM applications are now an issue)
3) (debatable) shorter careers will be more attractive/less daunting. my player's been alive for 3 IRL years at this point and is still at 1600 TPE. this is a massive commitment that I probably would not have made if I had known about how long player careers would be back when I joined

It very well could be a never-ending game of rebalancing, people figuring out a meta, and then rebalancing around that. But wouldn't that be better than just sitting here with the same meta builds perpetually? Yeah we might never find the "perfect" balance solution but imo it's worth it to at least try because archetypes changing every once in a while would at least keep things interesting.

I'm also in favor of a harsher regression, but I think archetypes can be part of the solution as well.

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