"new" adventures

[sparkz]

The upgrade of troops and camp placement to void guides were a simple way of making the adventures a lot harder since you have to use combat guide every time to check block (if you want them) and attack. The 50 % bonus was suggested because this is already implemented as premium :-)

Yea, but the bigger problem is not the one how to do it, but how to balance it.

Considering the fact that your army capacity is limited, the difficulty of a camp does not scale linearly, because the more meatshield you take, the fewer space for the damage units you have.

Realistically doubling enemy stats/numbers would most likely result in increasing the losses about 4 times, and in some cases make camps undefeatable using units (and quite possibly there would be some camps undefeatable using debuffs aswell).
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In case someone missed it, the initial iteration of Alibaba adventures on PTR had Steermen at 1 million HP, and if I remember correctly there was at least one camp where there were only about 5-10 unit combinations total (out of possible hundreds of thousands) that could defeat the camp without sending tens of MMAs to kill the weaker units. Sounds difficult enough, and thats just a result of pumping one units HP up too much. Nevermind the damage.

[Fanfas]

I like both ideas a lot, Myself even started a discussion some time ago suggesting something like the random position of camps, but i suggested a random enemy amount/type on each camp, of course this would still be based on the difficulty of camps, but within it's dificulty each camp could get a random number and type of enemies. This would make the adventures imprevisible and add a bit of extra dificulty to them, would not make them the same old repeating stuff, even if you don't use guides after a bit they get very very repetitive.

[KarstenL]

Yea, but the bigger problem is not the one how to do it, but how to balance it.

Considering the fact that your army capacity is limited, the difficulty of a camp does not scale linearly, because the more meatshield you take, the fewer space for the damage units you have.

Realistically doubling enemy stats/numbers would most likely result in increasing the losses about 4 times, and in some cases make camps undefeatable using units (and quite possibly there would be some camps undefeatable using debuffs aswell).
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In case someone missed it, the initial iteration of Alibaba adventures on PTR had Steermen at 1 million HP, and if I remember correctly there was at least one camp where there were only about 5-10 unit combinations total (out of possible hundreds of thousands) that could defeat the camp without sending tens of MMAs to kill the weaker units. Sounds difficult enough, and thats just a result of pumping one units HP up too much. Nevermind the damage.

What you see as a problem I see as an asset. The thing is: this is something that you can do if you want, so I'd expect to have a ton of losses compared to normal mode where there are guides. This is the reason for the extra bonus :-)

[vigabrand]

hard mode is a good idea and it doesnt necessarily have to be doubled. i should think even an extra 20% would make a substantial difference. if bb take this up i hope they stick to normal troops as using elites would be no different to doing ali's. and ofc being greedy players we'd expect a substantial increase in loot and xp to make it worthwhile doing hard mode.

some kind of buff in rph sounds a good idea, altho gems does not. i have better things to spend gems on than making bk harder when i can just play a harder adv anyway