xknite
03-04-2015, 09:51 AM
As you may have noticed, Gree introduced the new Apollo ranks. One of the advantages of the Apollo rank units is that you can buy these million point stat ships and if you want, recycle them to easily make a billion or 2 of valor.
Couple that with the new boost buildings ... and now you have folks in the top ranks who easily have stats ranging from 300 Billion to higher than 1 Trillion in defense (that is not a typo).
What does this mean during WD?
If you are not a top 10 team (which likely has a concentration of the Apollo ranks), then if you face one of these teams, then you should just take that hour off, as none of the opposition will be hittable (power attack also will not be enough)
You have the aha moment and now want to join a top 10 team. The minimum stat requirements for these teams is likely going to go up ... so you are now stuck outside looking in. Might as well give up/stop playing, or buy gold and spend loads of it upgrading your stats
How can you catch up?
Spend your days/nights going through the grind of hitting higher ranked players in your +/- 10-15 lvl range for BP.
Warning to the wary, this is extremely tedius! & especially at lvls below 300, where there is not a lot a high ranked players, and almost everyone is chasing that 1 or 2 guys who are actually higher ranked. Here the best you can expect to get in terms of BP can range from 10-35k. IF you are lucky, you might find someone who gives you 50k+ BP.
You do need to keep your eye on the ball while doing the BP grind, because like most of the non-Apollo's, you likely need over 1 Billion BP to catch up. Most of the current Apollo's got there by scoring anywhere from 300k - 1 million BP in WD over 2+ year period. So they earned their rank and now due to the genius of Gree you need to make that up in as short a time as possible, that is if you wish to continue playing this game and be competitive.
What can Gree do?
IMHO there are few easy things Gree can do to assist players willing to devote time to the BP grind
Expand the +/- lvl lookup range. This should be expanded to +/- 35-50 lvls
Increase (by 2-5x) the rank based BP limits
Since buildings lvls 11-20 cost 2 stamina, double the BP you can get from such buildings
Reduce the Stamina regen time by 50%
Note: The above are suggestions, and Gree can choose to implement none/all/some of them. I understand that the big spenders might not fully be happy about this, but the recent changes means that what previously was a manageable gap between the top 10/25 teams and the rest, is now a chasm that cannot be easily bridged.
Disclosure:
I will admit that as a player, playing this game for over 3 years, and currently dealing with the BP grind, the above post is a bit self-serving. But its also based on my experience trying to do the BP grind and seeing the challenges/frustrations of it, where i feel that something needs to change. Today a golden colonel rank (which is my BP rank from having played for 3 years) still needs over 1 billion more BP to get to Apollo!
Couple that with the new boost buildings ... and now you have folks in the top ranks who easily have stats ranging from 300 Billion to higher than 1 Trillion in defense (that is not a typo).
What does this mean during WD?
If you are not a top 10 team (which likely has a concentration of the Apollo ranks), then if you face one of these teams, then you should just take that hour off, as none of the opposition will be hittable (power attack also will not be enough)
You have the aha moment and now want to join a top 10 team. The minimum stat requirements for these teams is likely going to go up ... so you are now stuck outside looking in. Might as well give up/stop playing, or buy gold and spend loads of it upgrading your stats
How can you catch up?
Spend your days/nights going through the grind of hitting higher ranked players in your +/- 10-15 lvl range for BP.
Warning to the wary, this is extremely tedius! & especially at lvls below 300, where there is not a lot a high ranked players, and almost everyone is chasing that 1 or 2 guys who are actually higher ranked. Here the best you can expect to get in terms of BP can range from 10-35k. IF you are lucky, you might find someone who gives you 50k+ BP.
You do need to keep your eye on the ball while doing the BP grind, because like most of the non-Apollo's, you likely need over 1 Billion BP to catch up. Most of the current Apollo's got there by scoring anywhere from 300k - 1 million BP in WD over 2+ year period. So they earned their rank and now due to the genius of Gree you need to make that up in as short a time as possible, that is if you wish to continue playing this game and be competitive.
What can Gree do?
IMHO there are few easy things Gree can do to assist players willing to devote time to the BP grind
Expand the +/- lvl lookup range. This should be expanded to +/- 35-50 lvls
Increase (by 2-5x) the rank based BP limits
Since buildings lvls 11-20 cost 2 stamina, double the BP you can get from such buildings
Reduce the Stamina regen time by 50%
Note: The above are suggestions, and Gree can choose to implement none/all/some of them. I understand that the big spenders might not fully be happy about this, but the recent changes means that what previously was a manageable gap between the top 10/25 teams and the rest, is now a chasm that cannot be easily bridged.
Disclosure:
I will admit that as a player, playing this game for over 3 years, and currently dealing with the BP grind, the above post is a bit self-serving. But its also based on my experience trying to do the BP grind and seeing the challenges/frustrations of it, where i feel that something needs to change. Today a golden colonel rank (which is my BP rank from having played for 3 years) still needs over 1 billion more BP to get to Apollo!