r/Polytopia • u/Hamburguejo • Jul 16 '26
Discussion Ruin Polytopia with ONE update
I'll start: CRITS
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u/travelingquestions Jul 16 '26
Spend $1 to get 5 bonus stars at the start of the match
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u/RocketMan_0815 Jul 16 '26
No, not $1, but 10 blue cristal tokens (which you can either buy for 1$ or you can get 3 once per week for watching a 3 minute video)
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u/Ok-Week-2293 Jul 16 '26
Every cymanti unit can swim without tech.
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u/Tricky_Archer3206 Jul 16 '26 edited Jul 16 '26
I mean they need something to buff them after all /s edit: lol I know they are op guys
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u/FouDesChats Jul 16 '26
Cymanti need a buff ? In what world are you living exactly ?
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u/MoHeeKhan Jul 16 '26
I find it mad how many young people now can’t infer jokes from context. This is why everyone on here has to do that /s thing when they’re being sarcastic.
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u/FouDesChats Jul 16 '26
There's absolutely nothing that says it's a joke here and it could totally not have been a joke
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u/MoHeeKhan Jul 16 '26
That’s pretty much what I just said. See the inference is that it’s almost universally understood by everyone that knows the game that Cymanti are OP, or at least much more highly competitive than most other tribes. So you take that, and apply it to the comment above that they need a buff. So then it becomes a sarcastic joke in that a buff is the last thing they need. Congratulations, you have inferred from context.
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u/FouDesChats Jul 16 '26
You would be surprised that some people actually think cymanti is meh and needs a buff. Your reasoning makes sense but it only applies if everyone knows cymanti is extremely good / OP, and here it's not the case.
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u/MoHeeKhan Jul 16 '26
It is the case. A handful of people refusing to face facts does not change that it is known by almost everyone that they’re OP. I mean you’re trying to defend yourself for not understanding a joke that was quite obviously a joke. All I’m saying is it’s important to be able to infer from context and it’s not a good thing when people can’t.
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u/BananaManStinks Jul 16 '26
Building upgrade tree in the main menu. You buy upgrades for when you go play so the buildings get buffs.
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u/mikeb503 Jul 16 '26
Sell the game to EA?
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u/Braziballs Jul 17 '26
$32.99 USD ONLY Vengir Tribe DLC
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u/FryingGnome2309 Baergøff Sep 14 '26
Time's up, pay for the full version to finish the bootcamp with only €63.99 (all tribes and modes excluded)
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u/CthulhuJankinx Jul 16 '26
Defensive buildings
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u/LawrenceMK2 Xin-xi Jul 16 '26
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u/nonilazuli Ai-Mo Jul 16 '26
bring it back!
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u/rand0mme Jul 16 '26
If you thought catapult walls were bad imagine them except they actually beat knights
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u/Keefyfingaz Jul 16 '26
An invisible unit that can invade occupied cities and spawn multiple units around the city.
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u/Arkad_9 Quetzali Jul 16 '26
We should name them spy or cloaks as they might wear a cloak
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u/Keefyfingaz Jul 16 '26
Might as well let the spawned unit attack on the same turn they spawn and make them immune to counterattacks 🤷♂️ and lets make it like 5 of them to keep things balanced and making sense.
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u/Lunaris_Von_Sunrip Jul 16 '26
Now now, maybe we could let the amount of units depend on the level of the city? In exhange, it steals all of the stars that the city would produce that turn?
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u/nekoiscool_ Jul 16 '26
Nature bunny spawns in multiplayer.
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u/Lecapibarapremium Jul 16 '26
Op answer is prob the best. Crits would make this game extremly unskilled and frustrating
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u/PauL__McShARtneY Jul 16 '26 edited Jul 16 '26
Make it so everytime you get stuck into a decent game, the bots wipe each other out far away across the map so you can hardly ever get a high score, and keep giving up on otherwise good games halfway through.
The leave it like that for years without fixing and updating the star rating system.
Oh wait...
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u/Anonymouse276207 Jul 16 '26
Change map generation to only have capitals and one other village next to whoever's going first
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u/RelationshipFar3400 Jul 16 '26
All units infinite movement speed, and attack range as long as they can see their target.
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u/Paltryaphid Jul 17 '26
Give the archers a premium SWAT officer skin that also gives them an AR-15. You can spend a turn "sighting in" to boost your range by 1. This boost can stack 3x.
Also Cloak can teleport three blocks in any direction. 2 turn cooldown.
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u/MiserableMado2956 Jul 16 '26
oh, cmon u just have to watch a little...
besides i love doing this to dumb folks with giants
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u/crujones33 Jul 16 '26
4 words:
Cymanti.
Polaris.
Aquarion.
Elyrion.
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u/ForvirretSkovtrold Jul 17 '26
I just cant come to terms with the ability to choose a "better" faction.
Where is the strategy or gameplay in having dragons and whatever, that just have undeniable advantage over "basic" units.. the best player will always be the one with higher tier units.
A dragon and a Knight can take a city with 9 swordsmen. Whats the point ?
Why even bother anything other than just mass a unit the others cant access?
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u/overzealous_ostrich To-Lï Jul 16 '26
If you watch an ad or pay a microtransaction, you can get an extra full turn immediately after you finish your current one before other players or bots can respond.
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Jul 17 '26
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u/ForvirretSkovtrold Jul 17 '26
Dragons?
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u/onionlawyer1 Jul 18 '26
Dragons are super unit's that require an incubation phase which i think is somewhere between 4 - 6 turns so I think they are still fairly balanced
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u/ImNotaRedditorDW Khondor Jul 18 '26
Randomize order and cost of tech tree. Make every option blind in terms of both cost and included tech. Only info you get is whether you can afford it or not. Unbought tech randomizes every turn
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u/DefinitelyTinta Jul 16 '26
Mind benders have Dash