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Nope. It’s just these variables:
No, they make no difference to it. You have to look at a) Total number of expansions placed (regular hurt more than premium ones b) Total number of AW levels c) Total number of mandatory researches completed and d) Production boost. If you've been playing a while that last one is likely to stay the same on 700%.
Yes, it's all AWs and that has been the greatest annoyance for me and one of the biggest complaints to Inno (which makes no difference). So essentially, if you want to do better in tournaments there are only certain AWs that you should build that directly help your playstyle. The likes of Thrones of the High Men, Enar's Embassy, Sunset Towers, Maze, etc, really have no place in the game now, even if they did before.
Relics? So does this mean we should spend as many relics as possible to reduce impact?
It is a possible tactic, but in practice in a normal city there's nothing much you can do about it. Once your production boost reaches 700% in any one of T1, T2 or T3 then the maximum multiplier for relics is hitting you. The only way to change that would be to keep all of your production boosts low (i.e. small numbers of relics). For most normal cities that would be counter-productive, even if you could figure out how to do it.
No. You are thinking about it for the tournament, not just Spire (uses the similar algorithm), right? But there is not enough ways to get rid of boosted relics (and you need them for your manufactories!) and the algorithm takes the max from your three boosted relics (up to 500, the excess is ignored). So in reality you wouldn’t be able to play 3 out of 9 tournaments. Not a good deal in my eyes.
The thing is, previously someone could build an AW for any number of reasons, including the fact that they just liked how it looks. It didn't do any harm other than to waste your space. Now they decide to hit you with a double penalty if you build an Enar's Embassy. Not only are you wasting your space, but you'll be penalised on tournament squad size too. The craziest thing is that they still keep on offering wonders like that to people and pretending there could be a benefit from building them.
but it has been since long before the new tourneys. The way I see it: Nothing changed between old and new tourneys except that they added one more negative consequence to the pre-existing ones. But depending on the situation it can be a very big negative...
I probably shouldn't have described it as building for looks, but that could at least come into the equation. So, for example, let's say you love how the Pyramid of Purification fits into your city. Before the tournament change that's no problem. You're wasting some squares, but that's fine because if you upgrade it a ton then you're going to be getting plenty of extra sentient goods and a few extra troops. Upgrade it more and more then it becomes more worthwhile. In the current climate upgrading it past level 1 (as you say) just makes the situation worse and you would have to be much more in love with a building to justify it taking the space sat on level 1 stats.
Ha, so you do have that softer side too!
I do my best to hide it, it´s not good for my bad name...
Can´t have that, we need everybody trembling in fear when we show up to the party. Everybody running away screaming makes raiding so much more enjoyable.Don't worry @Gargon667, Orcs are allowed to have a soft side too
I’ll scream, if I had a voice ...
whinnying works I guess... or whatever you folks do