Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-76.191.154.199-20140410012324/@comment-11107497-20140410123128

CforKat wrote: eventually you are going to run out. That is the issue here. Its not about comparing who has the largest savings account of transmetals or who has the most powerful card. If one aspect of the game changes (the amount of transmetals needed to upgrade R6es) then another variable is supposed to be changed in order to balance that (for example a large transmetal reward for finishing in Tier 1). This balance has not been made yet. And that is a problem.

I fully understand.. Perhaps it's not the issue though. Maybe we're looking from the wrong perspective. Perhaps it's actually the point.

Perhaps the variable was people massing large quantities of credits and transmetal with nothing to spend it on, as was said, enough to last centuries. Perhaps the balance was the R6. Welcome to the matrix.

The R6 is a gold/item sink in answer to T1 having a years supply stored up.

What about the variable of how much more powerful the R6 is to the R5? That aspect of the game changed too, the upgrade cost is part of that balance.

What is the answer to the total balancing issue? With a desired reduced cost, how are we balancing the extreme power? Or the resources saved by having them?

It sounds like even though T1 has changed from R5 to R6, we want it to play and operate the same as an R5.