Potjeh wrote:Rock solid arguments against wiping item purity, guys.
Wiping item purity is completely different from wiping servers, bases, characters, etc. The argument to wipe Item Purity is a much stronger one than complete server wipes. However, the argument against it is that the items themselves can be stolen and the characters that have benefited from them can be killed. In fact, with permanent humour drain in play it is possible to make enough braziers so that someone were to lose more Humours scraping all your braziers than they could ever possibly regenerate with their legendary humus. Our base would be a perfect example of such a thing. The Candy Gang would use ALL their humus and then some just simply re-gluttonying their humours back up and would still not succeed in eliminating our Braziers.
The beauty of Salem is that there is a solution available to the players for any balance issue. Gallows Hill was not balanced against the Tribe because they had 33 people and were recruiting everything that moved. The Tribe's options were:
A) Whine and ***** that towns could have more people than us and argue that town rosters should be WIPED and caps should be placed on the number of players equal to how many we had
OR
B) Hit them where it hurts. use their mass-recruiting strategy against them and put somebody on the inside.
Legacy humus is no different. To maximize it players need lime. Do you think the major factions have town bells on their lime pits? Has anybody made an effort to assault their liming facilities to limit their ability to use it? How many players have attempted to trap a Titan inside a mine to effectively nullify all the legendary items he has consumed?
Mechanics to balance the game are in place, even against legacy humus. The Tribe mostly fuel'd our bins with raided goods (typically 0%) so when the patch hit I can guarantee we were at a HUGE disadvantage on the stockpiles of humus. Instead of complaining about it we went out and solved the problem by liberating it from others. An option that was available to anybody with 75 biles and waste.
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