Hey there, I would just like to review this entire topic and express my own opinion as I feel that we're making an important decision here. That decision is whether we go down the route of making a simpler game, or go down the route of either staying at or increasing the strategical element of this game. The people supporting option 1 want a simpler game, because it works out in their favor. They're campaigning about "If I can't ion it, then it shouldn't affect me" while simply waiting 1 more tick or watching more carefully would easily solve their problem. It becomes to the point that alliances use it as a defensive mechanism does it REALLY become an annoyance. And is this annoyance fair or unfair? Is it unfair for an alliance to use the defensive capability of a nuke? If you support option 1, you support the notion of taking away a defensive capability of a nuke. This game should not become black and white, it should increase the openness of using things.

Whoever said old client used to have 2 ticks radius on nukes is a complete moron and tool. Never did the old client have a feature like that on nukes. The only overpowered feature old client ever had was that nukes DESTROYED outposts, and it was promptly taken away. So I implore whoever likes to say lies in order to make their point seem more agreeable to go dunk their head in acid. I am surprised that not one person has said anything about this before I have.

Anyways, now that my random rant is over, let me show you an example of other games that were once strategical tyrants that now get laughed at over the simplicity of their game. Civ 4 to Civ 5. Enough said. Civ 5 took away most of the "annoyances" of Civ 4 because people complained. It's now a trash game. I implore you to go look at the facts a bit of what was changed, but it was mostly about the same kind of stuff that BD is facing decisions about today. "Slight annoyances" for most people translates to good strategy and tactics for others. Should I not use a nuke in a way that it would defend me? Should I not get an ally to help defend me by barraging my outposts under attack by nukes? Let's face it, take away the defensive capability of nukes and it becomes how fast you can conquer the colonies when it comes to a war. When above all.. the simple fix is simply delaying or waiting a tick. Or just watching more carefully.

And let's be 100% honest. Nukes don't have a mind. They can't pick and choose what destruction happens. If you're stuck in a radius of a nuke, you're screwed buddy. At least in Battle Dawn it's only 10% kill rate, and for squads within the radius, damages them to 1. That's really not bad and acceptable. It forces you to have to pay attention to nuke silos more and take them out. They also gain more use and it becomes less about going into enemy territory and conquering the colonies as fast as possible and becomes more about taking out their strategical positions and abusing them.

So simpler game or more strategical values.

I for one, love me some strategical values. And hey, if you don't like option 2 that's fine, but be sensible and realize that option 1 just takes away too much. I suggest if you're on that part, just ask for a compromise. No one's gonna kill you. Compromises are how things are done in democracy.

So, which option do you choose? And thanks for reading it and giving your opinion even though you are new

BTW I dont know why people want things to be realistic. I mean its as realistic as it can get what we have now. Infact you wont be having ion cannon, shields, gates etc if things were made too realistic

Something's are strategical because they're not as easily preventable Kane, you know this. That what can usually determine a win from a loss. Eventually you have to put your opponent into a place to where whatever decision they make still forces a loss. That's how you win strategically. This nuke's defensive capabilities can do that if played correctly, and you shouldn't allow that to be taken away if you call yourself a strategist.

the game advertises strategy not lottery.