Balloons

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Balloons

Post by Victor_swe »

I think balloons need a buff. More speed/ more los. I think the balloons+mortar could give lategame land a better chanse vs lame lategame sea.

Anyway, boost the balloons!
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Post by zoom »

+1
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Serbia Atomiswave
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Re: Balloons

Post by Atomiswave »

Buff it as much as you like, no one would ever use it. Useless niche feature......
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Post by Victor_swe »

U could use it lategame vs sealamage. If it were a bit boosted.
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aha, i used to piss the shit out of the previous FP team when talking about please buff balloons.

i was at the same level as thebritish with longbows. good times, good times
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Post by gibson »

I think balloons should be able to bomb shit on the land. I mean if you were a man in a balloon and your enemies were below you wouldn't you be throwing sand bags and everything else at them?
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Post by momuuu »

gibson wrote:I think balloons should be able to bomb shit on the land. I mean if you were a man in a balloon and your enemies were below you wouldn't you be throwing sand bags and everything else at them?

But if you take too much weight with you you might not be able to lift off.
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gibson wrote:I think balloons should be able to bomb shit on the land. I mean if you were a man in a balloon and your enemies were below you wouldn't you be throwing sand bags and everything else at them?

haha I understood bombing shit very literally...
Maybe some bonus + moving the temporary card to the Discovery age and the permanent card to the Colonial age would be a good idea?
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Post by iCourt »

Yeah I'd think balloons are in need of a boost. Think it's an age availability thing other than the units being bad. The explorer balloon probably needs a smaller recharge time.
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Post by iNcog »

Yes

oh yes

i would love for a balloon buff, PLEASE MAKE IT HAPPEN WOW

#bufftheballoon

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come on guys it's not that hard, buff the speed slightly (by 1 ideally) and move the cards to age 1 & 2
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Post by Mimsy for President »

I reported both of you and hope that DivineFire will burn the sh!t out of you.
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Victor_swe wrote:I think balloons need a buff. More speed/ more los. I think the balloons+mortar could give lategame land a better chanse vs lame lategame sea.

Anyway, boost the balloons!

I don't see how seing your enemies' artillery and shooting them down is a pro for the land side.
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Post by [Armag] diarouga »

I'd like to have aiz' opinion before I give mine.
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Re: Balloons

Post by tedere12 »

big balloon, big balloon
bigger than the sun and moon
flying high, in the sky
Flying fly and fly and fly
♪♬♫
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Actually, Balloons are much more useful when used together with Monitors, as they need LOS to deploy their Long-range attack, which is nice, especially that now its range is nerfed to 80 from 100.
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Post by iNcog »

Guys, making the balloon viable might just be the best thing that could happen to the game.

I propose increasing its duration.
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Re: Balloons

Post by AOEisLOVE_AOEisLIFE »

what about removing the ballon card from the homecity and making it a option that xplorer (of any civ) could spawn a ballon for 20 seconds for like 200 gold or sth ?
(honestly,even if this is a *better age II card ppl still would send 10 other cards before it, ya cant skip 700 wood or a military shipment or anything just for a ballon.. unless you combine it into a super age II spy card, where there is like increased LOS for spies and ballons and let xplorer spawn ballons and maybe actually sends some spies with the card for gold or idk.. just scouting information is hardly worth sending an age II card but thats just what i think..)
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Post by AraGun »

When the balloon is permanent how does the heroe make tcs and get treasures?
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Make Balloon card better and people will send it!!
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iNcog wrote:Make Balloon card better and people will send it!!

No, people won't.
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bufffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff
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I just hope DE is not going to implement all of the EP changes. Right now it is a big clusterfuck.
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Re: Balloons

Post by enjoy2play »

i already use it, its very good
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ballooon hypu
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Re: Balloons

Post by sdsanft »

The problem is that you can't skip the required shipments (700w 5vills 700g etc) just for more LOS, especially since many civs like France and Dutch and even Spain to an extent have literally no need for this. Honestly I think a 3 native scouts card might be more useful.
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