Wow! This is astonishing…yet not at all surprising to me. Leave it to lazy people to come up with a pointless cap system instead of solving the problem. There is a concept the devs need to learn, study, and adopt. It is called the Specificity Rule. The meaning of this phrase is simple; when dealing with a problem, deal with the problem head on instead of implementing “solutions” that do not address the problem.
The cap is pointless if the root problem is not solved. And how are we to know if we are approaching the limit? The game load time and playability issues will only be temporarily masked by a cap. If the memory is becoming overloaded at 2000 or even 2500 troops, then it will certainly be overloaded at 1000 or 1500 as well (even if to a lesser extent).
The stacking of troops makes complete sense because it solves multiple issues at once. Not only will it solve the problem of having too many individually coded units, it also solves the long standing problem of having to search through hundreds of troops looking for the 4-8 attached ones.
It would make the most sense to have a stack of unattached, and a stack for each and every military building. One of my chief complaints with attached troops is that you have no way of knowing which building it is coming from. As was previously mentioned, it is irritating to go into battle and not have a clue as to which ones you are putting in harm’s way. Sometimes you want a mix from each building, other times you want to use up all four from the same building. The stacking system solves this long standing problem as well.
The handling of damaged troops has been laid out fairly well here also. Obviously that may need to be refined and tested to find the most effective way of stacking them.
Let’s say for arguments sake, you had at least one unattached troops from each military building from each age. That would be 57 stacks of unattached troops including Rogues and Champions. Then, assuming you could get 50 military building down in your city (a bit high I know, but just trying to illustrate a point)…that would mean another 50 stacks. Finally, assume a stack for each level of troops in the healing process. Even breaking it down with each individual type of troop by age and damage level…that would be another 513 stacks (57x9) for unattached and 450 (50x9) for attached. This would require a total of 1070 stacks. That is FAR less than the 2000-2500 individually coded troops being implemented now. If someone has a more modest city, with about 5 military buildings, that total drops to 620 stacks.
The solution is right there in front of your faces FoE. Please do not ignore it out of some sense of pride! Take the sound advice being given to you from those of us who play this game every day. There are many compelling reasons to implement a stacking system…and not a single viable reason not to do so.
