Posts from REWORK for the Academy. Is it needed or not?

SoD is invaluable; everything else can be bought in "The Shadow of Death".

I don't particularly care about the *purity* of SOD, but I just don't understand how rebuilding will affect balance. Say the 1st player got lucky with control, and the 2nd with army. With rebuilding, that's a 100% win for the 2nd — where's the balance in that?

Yes, there are games where you can't find a certain spell, but I don't remember a single drawn-out game where you don't find at least 1 out of 3, and that's usually enough to cover the opponent.

If there is any benefit, it's only in speeding up the game, and not in balance at all, imho.

Why is no one talking about one-way directions, insane dispersion in layouts, impenetrable blocks? All of these affect the game result far more, or rather simply reduce the chances of winning to 0, and these are more generation bugs, since often the surrender is simply impossible to play.

P.S. Maybe it's worth making rebuilding cost the total amount of a GM, say for rebuilding up to the 4th level inclusive, you need 18 of each resource and 5k gold, or something close to that. For those rare cases when all the secondary Citadels fail. :)

Here, we need to consider how justified it would be. I would suggest a 1.5x multiplier for each magic level as a reasonable compromise.

P.S.: I now understand why Wic voted against it, as he's currently promoting HotA, and a balance change in SoD wouldn't benefit him.

A poll of the type:
try it and you'll love it.

Your speculations and fantasies about how it would be better would make sense if you were at least somewhat knowledgeable about the subject of the dispute.

Exactly. It reminds me of childish whims like "I don't like watermelon because it's green/striped/has seeds, etc., so I'm not even going to try it."
A child, by the way, can be persuaded through compromise or mild blackmail. With adult Heroes players, it's more difficult — they'll argue themselves hoarse without even lifting a finger to give it a taste :D

A survey of the type:
try it and you'll like it.

when you have resources and stats, but lack control and can't acquire it, and you just watch helplessly as your opponent with control outplays you turn after turn

actually, the main question should be asked: how long have people been playing SoD? 15 years, and it hasn't been changed! AND WHY CHANGE??? It's one thing when there are various improvements in the HD mod for the sake of improving gameplay, but it's another thing to change the dynamics of the game, where you go into Jebus Cross knowing for sure that there's mass slow for land, or going into Griffin Conservatory knowing there's mass

But in essence, Tyoma, you're suggesting changing the dynamics of the game, specifically what I described above, when everything works perfectly, the Griffs and Gogs lie down without losses from mass slows, that's cool, right?!

In any sport, there are two types of gameplay: 1. For fun. 2. To determine the strongest.

Honestly, after such words, I don't even feel like engaging in further discussions on this matter.
Do whatever you want.