I hope they fix it in a way so that all those with too many Squad Size upgrades, like me, will be able to join you in enjoying 800kp / week.
What is too many squadsize research?
It's not that I was able to skip them all since halfway the game the rules changed and up to that time I too researched all SS researches, in fact when it was announced I got quite mad, I had just finished a skipped SS reseach hours before,
But it's never to late to start skipping them, and with each chapter skipped research from earlier chapters becomes less and less influential.
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Let me explain in an extreme to get the concept.
How influential is the SS 3 research on your total SS?, for me is 0.26%, at that moment in game the influence was 50%.
The way SS are set up there size grows faster and faster and faster each and every time.
This means that the influence of recent SS upgrades are more influential than those in the past, so time and progression will fix the issue, unless you live under a rock, the message never arrived and you did them literally all in every single chapter, the your quite screwed, but then again time will fix
Just some examples for an account that reached the end of the embassies chapter.:
- Skipped all : 3216
- Skipped since Dragons and Wizard: 3711 (moment that the rules changed)
- Skipped since Halflings: 3801
- Skipped since elementals: 3924
- Skipped since Amuni: 4050
- Skipped since Construction: 4191
- Skipped since: Elvenar: 4335
Players who skipped all are in general new player / veterans started over, they lack history / time in wonders and powerfull event buildings, so you SS is higher but in return you are more powerfull in other ways
also they barely exist as most beginners learn to skip in genaral somewhere around the dwarves or later.
Now lets see the influence of the last 2 SS upgrades form the embassies chapter on each of the above mentioned
- Skipped all : 2865->3216 = +11%
- Skipped since Dragons and Wizard: 3360->3711 = +9.5%
- Skipped since Halflings: 3450->3801 = +9.3%
- Skipped since elementals: 3573 ->3924 = +9.1%
- Skipped since Amuni: 3699->4050 = +8.7%
- Skipped since Construction: 3840->4191 = +8.4%
- Skipped since: Elvenar: 3984-> 4335 = +8.1%
So with each chapter the relative increase compared to people who skipped earlier is lower, this also lowers the relative gap between the players.
When the rules changed the relative gap between no SS and myself was 33%, currently it's 14.7% and at the end of the current chapter 13.3%
So it's never to late to start skipping SS research, since time seems to heal all wounds.