So, the last pair of nerf polls went pretty well.
Explanation from first nerf-poll included for background:
I've hesitated on this one because the psychological impact of "my favorite unit just got worse!" is way different than anything else getting better. But I think there are some outliers in terms of units being so useful to the player that they actually reduce the effective field of choice ("why use A, B, C, D, or E when X is always better?", etc). On the other hand, I don't want to just wade in with the nerf bat, so player feedback is really helpful here.
So, the details:
1) There will be two polls: one for AI units, and one for Player units, so please specify if the nomination is for AI, Player, or both.
2) Both polls will have a "None of these need a nerf!" option and basically if any item on the poll has the same (or fewer) number of votes than the "None" option, then that particular item is not going to get nerfed as a result of the poll unless I'm really persuaded personally that it needs to happen. This doesn't mean that everything
above the "none line" gets a nerf, however, that has more to do with how many such things there are, how much time it takes me, etc.
3) I'll also probably solicit more direct feedback on precisely how to nerf the "winners" than I normally do with the what-needs-a-buff poll, to make it less likely that it's going to induce excessive rage
Though I imagine if it's a winner from the AI-side poll folks will be cheering instead
Anyway: what most needs a nerf? Anything human-usable or AI-usable is fair-game this time around, though each poll will probably only have 2-3 votes per person.
For reference, previous winners (in the sense that they got nerfs/changes as a result) :
I (Player-Side) - Botnet Golem
I (AI-Side) - AI Eye, Spire Stealth Battleship, Spire Shield Guard Post
=== One change from previous polls ===To make it less likely I'll miss your nomination while reading a bunch of posts, please put each nomination on its own line with the string "*Nomination:" in front of it (no double-quotes), so for example, here's two of my nominations (for real, actually) :
*Nomination: Hive Golem, Player-side
*Nomination: Spirecraft Penetrator, Player-side
(neither is ever used by the AI, iirc, but
And feel perfectly free to include as much discussion/explanation of these as you like, just separate from those lines so I don't miss them.
Sorry if it feels like a silly format; it kind of is
But I think in most of these polls I've missed at least one nomination and/or munged it into something else when trying to distill a paragraph of info into a poll-choice-name.