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You can't. Not in a asymmetrical game at least. Look gren/con spamm is not the only way ro play the game right now. Its just those are the popular builds. After this patch i see more ostheer players using variety of units. Can't say the same thing for soviets though. I believe some unit tweaking will change this but for now it is what it is

Thank you for sharing your thoughts !

So what you are saying is spam didn't exist in vcoh...?
In a game with so few units to build, spamming 1 unit almost cant be avoided.

Unit variety is another subject that we will need to address soon.

Here is the first of a series of post about concerns about the game and ways to improve them. (Sorry, English is not my main language.)

My main concern is about units spamming. While a legitimate way of winning, from my point of view however, it has neither the elegance nor the subtlety of a combined arms tactic.

Spamming is now seen in all kind of match, from 1vs1 to 4vs4.

Like an invasive rotting disease, it's slowly killing the game fun factor. The easiest, surest way to win is spamming. That must change. That must become one way of winning but not the best way.

Here is a re-post of 3 propositions to improve it :

1)-
Bring back vcoh style popcap. (Great, but it may be hard to go back to it)

2)-
Have a hard-coded popcap for each map. (A possible way to bring some logic, rather simple to implement, and their could be cap for inf, for tanks, etc. )

3)-
Give player's base a minimal popcap value and then increase it for each sector he controlled, for a maximum of 100 with 50% of the sectors controlled and connected.It still respect the 100 max pop as designed by the devs.

Ex: A map has 8 controllable territories and the base minimal pop value is set at 24.
So it gonna be (100-24)/8*2= 19. So popcap is increase by 19 for each sector a side control to a max of 100. (medium to implement and the one i like the most )

Plz share your comments and ideas about it.

Nullist, you are well know, why don't you start the topics list ? Your also got nice writing skills. (As you see, english is not my main language, it's french)

We must stop doing the game's eulogy and start to focus on what could be done realistically to improve it the way we want.

Relic want money, we want a good game and the changes needed are not that big. So we can do it.

We can do it !!

While i'm not a big fan of playing 1vs1 match, 1 like watching them sometime. I did watch the last match of the latest SNF. Strangely it's look like a 4vs4 match with it's 8 T34/85 but at least it's was fun and we could feel the energy. Great event ! i luv the casting and the comments.

But that such a high level match resume spamming tanks is a little strange. All on a small map... So what is the bug here and what could be done ?

To have disconnected production cap and territory control may have some advantage, but it has some consequences too.(last SNF match.)

This has to be fixed.
Here is 3 propositions to improve it :

• 
  Bring back vcoh style popcap. (Great, but it may be hard to go back to it)
  
  Have a hard-coded popcap for each map. (A possible way to bring some logic, rather simple to implement, and their could be cap for inf, for tanks, etc. )
  
  Give player's base a minimal popcap value and then increase it for each sector he controlled, for a maximum of 100 with 50% of the sectors controlled and connected.
  
  Ex: A map has 8 controllable territories and the base minimal pop value is set at 24.
  So it gonna be (100-24)/8*2= 19. So popcap is increase by 19 for each sector a side control to a max of 100. (medium to implement and the one i like the most )
  

The last patch was good, i think that the game is improving.

The CP change is a great one and it gave me this idea :

Bring the numbers of ability each Cmdrs have to 6 and separate those in 2 rows of 3 each.
Make CP a pool where the cost of the chosen ability is deducted. The lowest cost in a row must be bought first, but one can switch row. Ex: The lowest of each row could be bought.

Note :The CP cost is just the for showing the layout and mean nothing.
CMDR 1 CMDR 2 CMDR 3
6 - 8 7 - 9 5 - 7
3 - 5 3 - 4 4 - 6
0 - 2 1 - 2 1 - 3

I propose this change, i feel it could improve the game while giving Relics and Sega the opportunity to keep selling Cmrds.

**If someone has proposed this one before me, then i add my voice to his**