Are you, in fact, a pregnant lady who lives in the apartment next door to Superdeath's parents? - Commodore

Create an account  

 
[Spoiler] PBEM 77 Map Thread

I almost posted this in ipecac's thread since it's sort of like a mechanics question, but decided to play it safe even though this won't be news to most people here:

(July 16th, 2017, 15:05)ipecac Wrote: Why is PRO removed from the leader selection? This is BtS, right?

I think because in base BtS, PRO is considered the worst trait by a very wide margin; most players would consider a Pro leader among their options equivalent to no leader at all. I recall we've had games where it was found that even Pro/Fin wasn't strong enough to match two "regular" traits.

(July 17th, 2017, 07:38)ipecac Wrote: Why is EXP even banned? Not as many workers will be needed.

In base BtS, the value of EXP isn't really about getting lots of Workers cheaply. It's nice for getting the first Worker out quickly if the map cooperates, and certainly it helps with the rest of the Workers, no matter how many, but its big selling point is its cheap granaries. And with the Worker bonus on top of it, that's a very big selling point - enough so that when Seven balanced the trait for ToW, he decided the Worker bonus wasn't even needed to make it competitive!
Reply



Messages In This Thread
[Spoiler] PBEM 77 Map Thread - by pindicator - July 2nd, 2017, 20:37
RE: [Spoiler] PBEM 77 Map Thread - by Old Harry - July 3rd, 2017, 04:10
RE: [Spoiler] PBEM 77 Map Thread - by RefSteel - July 3rd, 2017, 04:59
RE: [Spoiler] PBEM 77 Map Thread - by pindicator - July 3rd, 2017, 08:51
RE: [Spoiler] PBEM 77 Map Thread - by Mardoc - July 3rd, 2017, 09:17
RE: [Spoiler] PBEM 77 Map Thread - by RefSteel - July 3rd, 2017, 21:57
RE: [Spoiler] PBEM 77 Map Thread - by Krill - July 4th, 2017, 10:16
RE: [Spoiler] PBEM 77 Map Thread - by pindicator - July 8th, 2017, 21:34
RE: [Spoiler] PBEM 77 Map Thread - by ipecac - December 13th, 2017, 17:44
RE: [Spoiler] PBEM 77 Map Thread - by pindicator - July 9th, 2017, 14:15
RE: [Spoiler] PBEM 77 Map Thread - by chumchu - July 9th, 2017, 15:24
RE: [Spoiler] PBEM 77 Map Thread - by Old Harry - July 9th, 2017, 17:32
RE: [Spoiler] PBEM 77 Map Thread - by pindicator - July 10th, 2017, 01:16
RE: [Spoiler] PBEM 77 Map Thread - by Mardoc - July 10th, 2017, 14:07
RE: [Spoiler] PBEM 77 Map Thread - by pindicator - July 10th, 2017, 21:59
RE: [Spoiler] PBEM 77 Map Thread - by GermanJoey - July 12th, 2017, 16:30
RE: [Spoiler] PBEM 77 Map Thread - by Krill - July 16th, 2017, 16:12
RE: [Spoiler] PBEM 77 Map Thread - by pindicator - July 16th, 2017, 19:08
RE: [Spoiler] PBEM 77 Map Thread - by Old Harry - July 17th, 2017, 12:33
RE: [Spoiler] PBEM 77 Map Thread - by RefSteel - July 17th, 2017, 17:02
RE: [Spoiler] PBEM 77 Map Thread - by pindicator - July 25th, 2017, 11:55
RE: [Spoiler] PBEM 77 Map Thread - by Coeurva - August 5th, 2017, 16:06
RE: [Spoiler] PBEM 77 Map Thread - by pindicator - August 13th, 2017, 12:27
RE: [Spoiler] PBEM 77 Map Thread - by ipecac - December 11th, 2017, 15:36
RE: [Spoiler] PBEM 77 Map Thread - by shallow_thought - December 12th, 2017, 02:58
RE: [Spoiler] PBEM 77 Map Thread - by ipecac - December 13th, 2017, 12:00
RE: [Spoiler] PBEM 77 Map Thread - by ipecac - December 13th, 2017, 15:14
RE: [Spoiler] PBEM 77 Map Thread - by ipecac - December 13th, 2017, 17:38
RE: [Spoiler] PBEM 77 Map Thread - by ipecac - January 5th, 2018, 11:47
RE: [Spoiler] PBEM 77 Map Thread - by RefSteel - January 9th, 2018, 22:51
RE: [Spoiler] PBEM 77 Map Thread - by ipecac - January 10th, 2018, 09:28

Forum Jump: