Manpower - the bottleneck

Robert Parris · Feb 3rd 2019, 9:06am

Lack of manpower, especially early in the game is the single largest determiner of speed of game and level of player interactiveness. Perhaps manpower is purposefully set exactly where it is because it probably results in more Ducat spending than any other factor. Changes have been made to resource amounts and game speeds to increase player involvement and retain more players, but as long as there is a manpower scarcity...especially early in the game...there are only so many actions players can take before they are staring at the screen, and bored.

Yetzer Hara · Feb 3rd 2019, 9:59pm

I agree

birdman66 · Feb 5th 2019, 3:52am

One thing that the changes did was to increase reliance on mercenaries. Before mercenaries were a luxury and were mostly used as shock troops. With the increase of monetary resources mercenary troops have become a staple, especially early in the game. They will use up your unit cap pretty fast so there still has to be a balance, but this is a fundamental change to the game.

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