Au contraire mon frère! Hold up! Wait a minute! Not so fast my friend... (How many more cliched, umm, cliches can I throw in there?!?)
I think it’s a mistake to look at both of these buildings with any sort of shortsightedness. All we need to do is pay attention to recent announcements and see the devs have plenty of new tricks up their sleeves. All we know for sure right now is how SAM looks based off of testing on BETA. But what about Battlegrounds? SA:Cera coming soon will surely shed some more light.
It’s an exciting time right now with a few new inventions coming on the horizons. SAM already plays completely different than any other era, much like how we all felt about PE implementing 2 lanes changing age old city building strategies, ME with how our goods worked, AF with the need for special goods.
I don’t think the devs are contemplating how these buildings will affect, or be used by lower age players finding some loophole (like Hemeji Castle in HMA vs LoA running up supply stocks for RQs??? Really?!? Wish I had that
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I’d rather think the devs are setting us up for what’s ahead in future ages as the game is changing. Changing in ways you/we/us are not contemplating.
You think Virgo has no use in Battlegrounds? Eeek out a few extra battles to secure a province once attrition has taken its toll and (depending on how they construct everything) the cost of negotiation may be prohibitive??
Star Gazer may just end up quite useful as well as it seems every new announcement just has the feel of some limit being placed on battle, and some priority on negotiations. I see many/most players trying to find ways of procuring SAM goods and stocks of VF dwindling over time. Once CERA hits, looks like there will be very limited means of procuring SAM goods as that “settlement” will be closed. No more mining Mars once you move on.
It may take some time, but I see that the devs have some sort of vision they’re trying to construct. What all that entails, no clue, but I think we need to keep our Rose colored glasses on with a tall, full glass of Kool Aid in hand and see just how everything is going to shake out.
These buildings are not designed to benefit the current state of things. There’s bits and pieces of info already out there and what little we do know shows that these will have some use after all. We just don’t know all the details yet.
A year from now, maybe two, this game will be completely different from an “end game” perspective.