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Its a matter of opinion I guess. I do think the game is better. We have CC for one. We have Dev's that actually speak to us. Yeah, losing my millions sucked, but I believe the game needed the wipe. You have to skill and work hard to make money to buy the things you want. It shouldnt come easy, that is part of the game. That really is the whole point of the game. Its a glorified chat room that is goal oriented, if you so choose.
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ok, thats just ignoring whats happening... Skill? For what?? If you havent noticed, they've done away with skill bonuses for pizza. A team of 0's gets the same as a team of 20's. They no longer want us to skill. So what is left? Just as you say, a glorified chatroom. I dont see the goals there anymore
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That is a gross exaggeration. I don't know about the skill bonuses, but as far as payout goes, a team of zeros does NOT get the same as a team of 20s. The payout per pizza is more. Why are people so fixated on just the skill bonus and not looking at the price they are getting per pie? YES it is still low, but there *is* still a small advantage to getting that skill.
Not to mention it is ALOT easier to find people to play with you that know what they are doing when you are skilled because most people realize the point I just made and since payouts are so low whatever you do they will not deal with a player that has less than 10 in the position they want to play. And since I can't see the point in playing more than one round with a person who isn't experienced or skilled to show them how it works as an incentive for them to go and get the skill to do better, I got the skill so that I would be seen as a worthwhile team mate.
That and I do NOT want to be the low man on the totem pole when it comes to being on a pizza team, because I would have the knowledge that I was dragging that team's pay down even further than it already was since the payout is based on the total number of skill points on the table, and not split up and more given to those with higher skills and less given to those with lower skills. If that's the way it worked, then hey if somebody doesn't wanna skill and is willing to work for bupkiss, yeah I'll play with them to get my 20 skill points worth of points.....but when their unwillingness to skill affects my payout, yeah I got a problem with it after I've played with them for a round or two just to give them an idea of what they need to do. Many players won't even do that....they'll just bite the head off newbies that are not stupid, they are just unfamiliar with how pizza works.