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Ad Ravenstrider:
I don't support idling anyways. I doubt that the real activity would be any lower when people with an actually bad balance can roam freely again, without people beating on them.
Getting so far out of balance that you can prey on really weak, and then back in to lose heat, wouldn't be half as attractive as staying in balance, i bet.
Losing heat is an issue of mass grinders, not the casual newbies. And newbies don't have any VE to use combo as heat losing method, ever. If they have that, they definitely go as vet in my definition.
And bursts are a whole lot harder to get when you can't attack everything you find, relying on those for heat loss won't get you too far.
ad xrieg:
I got and maintained balance in and out of alliance often enough with standard creatures, it's not hard. You play when you play, and log out when you don't, no problems at all.
Currently, almost all rituals do rely on combo. Either to burn with angiens, or to survive with normal damagers. Rituals without combo have become the rarest sight.
If you don't manage to keep balance, that's something you need to learn.
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1. _Everyone_ who is at MDP regularly must control their balance - or kill their crits or go into skilldagame. You do not seem to deny my statement that most of the time there is very little actual fighting in MD - and yet you explicitely promote an idea that would make any fight a campaign - and mass fighting as a set of duel during SG events... or more probably: current unbalanced will remain such just to fight the way they like - only their 'effective max ve' will go down
2. About every off depends on combo about every def on priests.
3. You repeat your argument about 'weak', while currently 'weak' are the strong and the change you advocate does nothing about it.
4. It seems to me that the only change you may bring is a bit more ppl allied - and those unallied would have to rely less on their combos.
5. Loosing heat is not a problem of serious grinders. With enough max ve any heat gathered with or without combo may be effectively lost. It's more a problem of a newbie with 100k- max ve who may easily accidentally (or not that accidentally) get massive heat.
6. You play when you play log out when you do not - means also less targets on MDP do plan fights
7. Finally - please define real activity...