Power creep has entered Stream raiders.
Lets start with the definition. What is power creep? It refers to the situation where new content or features make older ones obsolete or irrelevant, creating an imbalance and a loss of diversity in the game.
This is something we are starting to see more and more in stream raiders were the company is reusing the old campaigns over and over without tweaking the enemy or adding new enemies.
The current campaign is a prime example where the crystal hold container, which is capped at 2000, is not big enough anymore. A revenant Phantom equipped with a lancer soul can easily see you cap out on crystals in ONE single battle!
The amount of Crystals and the content of the chest yet again are adding a staggering amount of gold, tokens, and legendry's to the game. We are now 2 day's into this campaign and some players already reached level 75+ on the battle pass.
Now the easy way out is to add a single digit behind the crystal container. Somewhat more work would be to tweak the amounts drops. But the thing that really needs to be done is adding and tweaking the enemy we need to defeat or start making new campaigns.
This campaign has gone from a challenging campaign when it first came out, towards a farming simulator. The same setup can get you through the whole campaign with one single drop for each placers participating. Utterly boring, not motivating, and no challenge anymore.
Greets, love ya all, ImmerBock.
#Power Creep.
hidden nexus
compact leaf
Hmmm..crystal cap is 2000? 1983 crystals from 1 battle. How about we add a zero or two to cap..Lol. That 1 battle was a non epic legendary with soul. I’ve lost over a thousand crystals accidentally not constantly keeping an eye on cap. My fault obv. Yet I like to play for fun and personal comp w/myself. Keeping an eye on crystal cap, constantly spending crystals is not fun when I’m forced to do it. Yes I know I can simply place differently. BUT ppl are taking over battles with a single legendary unit and even more so if it has a soul. Then from Mythic chests ppl have thousands of meat so that legendary unit can be constantly placed battle after battle. Why can’t assists be rewarded w/crystals at all? Yes support units can yield kills but much more common for attack units to get assists thus getting crystals and potions as rewards. Not just potions. I mean there’s no team without your defense. Just like lurkers are the backbone of Twitch. Also I’m no expert but this campaign seems so easy. I’m seeing captains from “easy” to “extreme boss”battles only needing 1-2 units from players to win in 5-7min battles. Lastly I consider myself a casual player that likes to grind when I have the time. I’ve played SR approx 4-5yrs but took a 1yr break in that. I’m not saying to nerf something or raise cap, etc. The balance just seems the most uneven than any other previously reused campaigns imho.
Much luv and appreciation to SR team & community, Tina
prime owl
As I said to Immer earlier in the day, Creating a single new unit that mimics the Sky lancer would have prevented the Revenants from just destroying everything every time. Any map with a flying unit can be won with a few well placed revenants. New enemy units are required to both counter new units that make old content too easy, but also to just make the old campaigns less dull.
steep void
iirc, last time they ran Elementals, the crystal payout was too high and had to be pulled back after the first day. Is this back to that too high crystal reward?
hidden nexus
Not at all Pip, this time they forgot to enter a digit behind the container. It can only hold 2000 crystals where it should be able to hold 20.000 to makes things more smoothly and polished:)
oblique dust
Another digit to the cap would be really helpful. Even if you do stay on top of it and empty it out, when one match can give you enough to hit cap in one go, it's so easy to waste them accidentally 🙂
opaque trellis
If crystals cap out at 2,000 then players who place revenant phantoms will spend all their time opening chests, that they wont be able to spend the meat to place another revenant, allowing newer players to place their phantom. Adding more zeros would make the inflation worse.
soft lantern
Can't help but agree. A 10k cap is definitely needed, matching ruby limit, and some tweak to the difficulty (new enemy?). Most events have been nerfed due to captain/viewer complaints already, and these Phantoms are making a joke of Elemental. 2800+ crystals from one drop. I don't see how this equates to fun, unless I'm supposed to chase that number every battle, seeing how high I can push it...
solemn mountain
I have to agree with what everyone above is saying, it is to easy to max out on crystals in one game. I have to empty my crystals after every game to prevent from maxing out. As a result I am also up to level 64 on the event rewards on one account and 54 on the other that I start a day later. I will likely be maxed out on both accounts in a few days having to spend crystal as fast as I am. I agree that raising the limit of crystals to 10k or 20k will help.
finite heath
Just on the back of Immer's post, today I have completed all the tier rewards. I haven't played any more than I normally would but it does go to show how quickly the elemental chests are dropping token etc. I hold the same view as others something needs to be done around the crystal cap, this morning I won 2580 crystals in one battle, 580 of which were wiped out because of the cap. I am still a relatively new player but I can understand the frustration of those that have had to really grind to level up their units. However a middle ground is needed to give the newer players some chance at getting crystals to level up rather than the same old names placing one of their many phantoms and using their 30K meat to constantly unlock them to rinse and repeat crystal farming.
hidden nexus
Power creep in it's full glory, well done Rabie!
finite heath
Just as evidence of what one battle can give in crystals being higher than the cap.
hidden nexus
We need that bigger container now!
pastel relic
It definitely is very zoomy with the crystals
finite heath
steep void
Y’all here keep harping on this. It is significantly more likely that they will slash the crystals given out rather than raise the cap on crystals we can hold. They have done that before when the rate for giving out event currency was too high.
Oops. I just read #1083541688791871562
brazen garden
Y’all here keep harping on this. It is significantly more likely that they will ...
lmao
hidden nexus
Somebody woke up, lol
steep void
Oh magic monkey paw, I wish my money was not overflowing out of my wallet.
sweet wedge
"everyone" got what they wanted now , crystal rates got halved at least.
(this is why u dont complain about capping a currentcy in 1 battle)
steep void
🙃
sweet wedge
now the people that couldn't farm suffer for others greed, does that make the 2nd poster in this thread happy?
(not supposed to be an attack to be clear)
soft lantern
The way our actual complaints/suggestions (higher cap, increased difficulty) got translated into lowering the amount of currency.
On one hand, I do appreciate being heard. On the other, being listened to would've felt even better.
steep void
FWIW, I am seeing more crystals from battles which I have not placed Phantoms in. I assume because people have stopped placing Phantoms?