Profile of KyleAkira

Hi

I played two fun auto-matched 2 v 2s yesterday, won one and lost one.

I lost as USF and won as OKW, both games were four faction games (i.e. mixed teams).

Here's the thing - I felt the games were well-balanced in terms of player skill (I'm out there in the not-very-skilled majority) but I played better in the game I lost (i.e. USF).

Why?

I think it's pop cap. The OKW player (including me) has such epic resilience and can shrug off poor map control (on Semoisky I had 75% control) and those 'great come backs' mean for many of us 'just hang on long enough to get supertank).

I did this myself, the T34 call-in armada I was facing was crushed by a KT and a panther, not to mention my shrek legion.

Am prepared to accept L2P allegations because, as I say, I'm not the most skilled player but am enjoying 2 v 2. But when I *win* and wonder how I did it I have to ask myself if the pop cap issue is skewing outcomes disproportionately.



Oh, and if Vetlolcake is reading this, I faced upwards of eight HMG teams backed up with At guns and mortars - I stuka'd them and used, you know, micro.

It is a reality that USA pop cap can be exploited with armor decrew but I have the feeling that Okw units pop is low compared to werhmacht faction and that means that more okw squads can be fielded.

I like to use smoke with mortars and I think this bug is coming since the last 2 patch.

Panther is a Medium tank with almost the cost of a Heavy tank. 490 Mp + 175 Fu (+ Teching cost)

Panther AI is poor, Panther AT is decent, but Panther is weak against AT guns and AT vehicles (making Tiger a better choice)

Relic staff will probably have game analysts, you know, people that use that kind of tools in where you can see lot's of numbers and ratios.

What is the % of tigers fielded compared to Wehr Panthers? What is the % of SU-85 compared to heavy tanks?

I prefer coh1 style. Limit on heavy call ins (1 Tiger in field, 1 Pershing) and better balance in T3-T4 units against heavy call ins.

maybe they could make multiple vehicle crews for every american tank which then have the same popcap cost as the tank where they come from, so you dont get free popcap for leaving your tank

would just be mostly copy paste oft the vehicle crew and the ability to leave the tank

Not fair, so if I loose my Easy 8 but I save my crew and I put them back into a m20, I'll be penalized. Plus that solution requires a big modification in the COH2 core system.

I prefer easier solutions.

@ Kyle, one of the factions design is crews repairing tanks. Imagine this.

You are pop capped have a damaged tank and a squad that is not full. You pop out your tank crew, suddenly there is enough pop for your queued squad to reinforce the last members. And voila, your tank is dead in the water. Ofc you can use CEs to repair tanks, but taking design into question the solution you propose insnt really all that easy to be honest.

Also, all other factions can go above 100 pop if they chose to steal abandoned tanks as well (and crew weapons for that matter). Not saying it is not exploitable, but it is a complex thing to adress. IF it needs to be addressed.

It's easy then, the solution will be to let you capture vehicles with 100 pop but not with 101.

In your example:
you decrew your tank and your queued squads start reinforcing and "voilà" your pop is 100 now (It won't be higher than 100 because reinforce/production system don't let you overpass 100).. You CAN crew back your tank.

With that solution, nobody will be affected by production/reinforcing queues, you will be able to crew/decrew your existing vehicles but now getting new ones. The max pop you can get with that system is 114 which is only 1 extra tank in terms of pop.

Change your mind, find a solution in every problem.

About the implementation of that solution it should be easy in terms of programming, just make a check before every action of crewing tanks (just as its made for building mines or building units when you don't have the resources or the free cap)

As far as I know, I can start building a tank when my cap is 99, my resources are spent but the tank will never come to the battlefield until the cap is free. This is because the game is checking the availability of pop cap.