2008-01-30, 07:49:57
TKF Wrote:If you decide to trade, it's tactical that you stay trader for the rest of the game. Your teammates gets more and more gold, and you can spend your gold at boosting force upgrades.There should be a lot of 'ifs' attached to this statement. It could just be the big disparity of the quality of players on Azeroth. Typically by the time I get to 150 wood I'm just the nail in the coffin. Beyond that 15 trades a round takes quite a while even with a speed pack and cp teles so spreading gold around isn't a big issue at that point.
As far as upgrades go I have the same trader experience as many others. Where I'm just throwing money away on a lousy team or my team is pwning and the extra gold and upgrades are marginal at best. Upgrades aren't what they used to be with the troop summon nerfs so I don't even bother with them. Gold is much better spent on mines and orbital control imho.
My worst experience as a trader is that going through the upgrade w/ me as a trader and a mediocre team vs a good player and a decent player and a couple of feeders that dropped. I was able to prop my team up and destroy everything but the castle at which point the other team bought a few factories and barricades and my team just fed as they were double or trippled healed. Once the other team amassed enough gold to get an infernal and a frost bot and a couple of lasers and a frost laser on the infernal they toasted my team and took over the map. Eventually I let the other team push into my base and released a ton of mortar teams and troop reinforcements as well as troop command and a seige pack for the buffs and debuffs and again took them down to just their castle when the frost infernal got the time to tele'd back and killed me. ... the point is... gold and upgrades will not win you a fight and gold and upgrades will not make a mediocre player a good player.
Other than that I trade to understand the trader and because most people don't understand the impact it can have in a 5v5 game.
edit: btw... the combos I like because you don't cut the combo trade in half and split it with your team. So if you're looking for a trade that only benefits you rather than the team then the combos are where it's at. That said... the bomb used to take too long and the speed pack you can upgrade to easily now. So the only one that I would do consistently was the factories... both on light and dark. I don't like the way the factories feed now so often I'd trade them but not set them down until I know we could win with a single hard push.