Poggle Omicron Stealth Nerf

"BubbaFett;c-2416624" wrote:
I agree (don't recall disagreeing)....

I don't know if you disagreed, but you seemed to not understand his suggestion at first since "they tried this".

"BubbaFett;c-2416624" wrote:
The more simple solution, if they don't want it to work against a GL, is just to put that in the kit like they did for other kits...

I agree with this as well. Why not both?

as the OP stated - we waited for the update notes after a tw - there was no mention of it, several people applied it - then a mysterious edit over an hour and a half later - adds the addition of the poggle nerf to the update notes.

Sure they said they were looking at it, but if you release something - and later discover you are going to heavily reduce its value - a refund for the costliest resource in the game would go along way.

Other wise are we to adopt a strategy of waiting 3 months to apply an omicron to be "safe" from a stealth nerf down the road? That's a terrible precedent to set YET it keeps happening.

Some level of communication or stipulation should be in place. Is that not a reasonable course of action?

"MaricSkywalker;c-2416689" wrote:

Other wise are we to adopt a strategy of waiting 3 months to apply an omicron to be "safe" from a stealth nerf down the road?

I'm not saying we should need to do that but when it comes to TW and GAC omicrons, I always wait - no matter how good it looks. Once is an accident twice is a coincidence three times is a pattern. It's an unfortunate pattern and one that should be corrected, but it's how things have been going for a while now. CG has this great vehicle to generate buzz and create a perception of 'need' with these omicrons and they've effectively made people afraid to engage for fear of not ultimately getting what the thought they would and have generally been content to let it be a 'buyer beware' scenario for these abilities.

It's so easy to fix too. If you change it - even if it was a bug fix to correct unintended behavior - just refund it. It costs nothing to do, and people would never again hesitate to apply another omicron.

For me though - I hold back specifically because I'd rather not deal with the fiasco of having the ability devalued AFTER spending resources on it. Also it gives the early adopters and whales a chance to evaluate it and report back before I roll the dice on it.

This is ridiculous. I assumed the "issue" with poggle omicron was it working in squad and conquest not a balance problem. To nerf without refunding is terrible.

"BubbaFett;c-2417310" wrote:

"D0C70RF4U57;c-2417309" wrote:
This is ridiculous. I assumed the "issue" with poggle omicron was it working in squad and conquest not a balance problem. To nerf without refunding is terrible.

That was a month ago... If you are just finding out about it now, I am going to go out on a limb and say it likely didn't affect you too much :)

Thanks for being so condescending. You are a real credit to the community.
I knew about it the entire time I just still had hope they would refund until now.

If it's great and not impacting those that applied it too much, refund it and let them reapply it. But, since we live in reality...

OP, learn your lesson. CG is stingy AF about refunds and does not test omis well. Don't apply any that seem this good to otherwise bad teams unless a couple months have passed with no word from CG.