Patch Contemplation...

[RandyDogz]

(08-27-2012 07:28 PM)Kamikaze28 Wrote:  Are you willing to risk a league demotion to earn achievements? Because that will inevitably happen once you introduce secondary goals into the gameplay. What's more important to you? Winning or getting that last achievement?

That's what I like, no longer is winning the one and only goal, if one goes after achievements (or one could simply ignore with no impact to other aspects of the game). I agree that your opponent can resign and mess up a late plan for an achievement, but that's good. Means you can't just decide to go for one once you have guaranteed victory, it's something that you'd need to i) incorporate into you're overall gameplay (ie multi specials), or ii) accomplish kinda randomly without really planning (ie one unit left).

If you play solely for achievements, league play - which would still be the prime indicator of skill - suffers. But they'd be something that may reward creativity rather than just choosing the statistically best move all the time. Which for someone like me with slim to none chances of making it to Super Titan, adds another layer to keep playing if and when league progress plateaus. Thankfully I can say I'm nowhere close to getting bored ATM, just thinking longer term.

Or maybe it's just my illogical need for immediate feedback, even if not purely skilled based. It'd be exciting to watch climbing from 37,610 to 37,611 out of 91,728 in one night, not just waiting for the long term league movements.

But y'all make very good points, and I definitely did not give it a heck of alot a thought. Thanks for the interesting feedback.