The problem is, the definition of "perfect" varies from person to person. Everyone has their own unique take on the current balance. Even at the very top end, with the current best players - Voodoo, Lu_Xun, ROCK, etc - they all disagree on a lot of things. Some like bombers, some hate them, some think Aeon are terrible, some think they're fine, so on and so forth on almost every point of contention in the game.
That seems to imply that the balance is actually pretty good. It will be a physical impossibility to balance the game in such a way as no one ever complains about anything, because, again, everyone has their own unique opinion of how the game should be played and how it should be balanced. Since there's such a wide variety of different interpretations on these subjects, bombers being a perfect example of this, it implies that the balance is already very good. If every single person was saying "bombers are terrible!" then it would be cause for alarm - look at prior examples for reference, such as 3599 restorers.
What the above means is that trying to rashly force through balance changes merely for the sake of having a change to point to is a very, very bad idea, as it will be primarily fueled by opinion and not cold, hard, data. When there is such a widely varying opinion on a change, such as with bombers, you are necessarily choosing to hold one group's opinion in higher esteem than another. The moment that the game starts being decided by opinion, no matter how well formed said opinion is or how well respected the originator of said opinion is, we start an irrecoverable slide into balance being determined by arbitrary popularity contests and a select few's personal opinions rather than by genuine need or with empirically provable results.
To summarize, no change should always be favored over a change, unless and until there are absolutely iron clad reasons for it backed up by irrefutable evidence. This has not been the case with bombers, nor any other proposed balance change contained in these forums - hence, no change has been made.
Continuing to complain about it in chat and forums won't change that - be sure to reread the big red text at the top of every page in this subforum.
Statistics: Posted by uberge3k — 27 Feb 2012, 19:03
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