Balance.. what do you think it means?
I read the word ‘balance’ in so many threads on here but it’s used is so many ways and it appears to have several meanings, so could someone clarify? I thought balance would mean that each characte...
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"leef;c-1325885" wrote:
Diversity and balance aren't interchangible though. Hypothetically, diversity could still be a problem even if arena was perfectly balanced @Dretzle
But i definately agree that the amount of effort it takes to get a toon ready for arena doesn't do wonders for arena diversity. The current mod management interface isn't helping either.
I agree. That's true. I guess what I'm getting at, in part, is many think the game or the toons are not balanced because they don't see diversity. Yes, there are toons that on their own are clearly more powerful than other toons (*ahem* Luke *ahem*), but then there's toons like FOST that have enormous utility, as well, for their role -- in fact, one might even say they are well balanced when comparing to other toons (I'd make an argument, based on my use of him, that FOST is almost but not quite as good/powerful as GK, though maybe not quite as versatile as to his uses) -- but because they are too hard to farm, not as well known as to their usefulness, or hard to gear (coupled with the uncertainty), we don't see them and they fall by the wayside, labeled as "unbalanced".
In fact, even when CLS and the rebel meta came along, there are empire teams that can beat an comparatively modded CLS team quite handedly, but others only know of hurt when trying to fight CLS, so the empire team gets beat down and the player either switches to CLS/rebels or lives with falling fast. Is this unbalanced? Well, you could say that they're not as good on defense as CLS, so they're not balanced, or people just know/learned how to beat them but don't know how to beat the CLS team yet.
