Fatal Years balance problem or why players’ feedback is unvaluable

Since yesterday, the first reports about players having chosen to go through the unhistorical path for Siberian Whites have showed the game was unbalanced and too easy.

NM is quickly raising to such a level most of the negative events can’t fire. So Siberians Whites, without any internal dissensions, are entering a virtuous circles, gaining NMs by victories which hinder NM to fall…

On the Matrix forum, Keke, has found the cause of the trouble , where I wouldn’t have looked for.

 

Indeed, for myself, I’m currently checking mainly in my test, the features I’ve introduced in FY, not the general AGE engine ones.

I dodn’t know, or forgotten, NM losses or gains after a battle weren’t tid to the destruction of any unit, but only those having a POL value in their definition.

 

The sound observations by Keke has reminded me this point. Indeed, Siberian units had no POL value. Now, Czech, Cossacks and Elite Komuch infaantry will have.

 

So using and losing them will cause NM losses 🙂 A huge step forward for balance.

2 lessons:

 

– I’m confirmed my mod needs players feedback to my own pleasure. This point would have remained unknown to me for a long time.

– Having good betatesters is unvaluable. I’m lucky to have several ones. 🙂 A good betatesters isn’t someone who talk essentially on the new features to implement and rarely on bugs ( That’s current in some team….). Not those playing FY haven’t ideas, they do proposals and they are interesting. However, they haven’t forgotten first to look at BUGS…

 

Thanks to them.

 

Next version soon 🙂