'Addressing OOF support' doesn't inherently mean nerfing it. If the points a dragon gave were based on what element it last spent n days in, then the big flights would benefit - they're now getting earth/fire/water's dom points multiplier for the dragon instead of their own low one.
Finding a way of balancing that would be hard as hell, because boarding etc, but anything else is either a blanket solution that makes things harder for everyone or trying to affect player culture... which is a convoluted nightmare.
I might be de-anonning myself, but it makes me laugh that everyone's talking about earth's aesthetic being the reason they've lasted so much longer than other flights as the dom top dog, because when I came up with it a couple years back it was not a popular theory.
(pre-emptive edit - not saying I'm the only one that came up with it on their own, but I'd never seen it raised before I did)
Re: The problem with dominance
'Addressing OOF support' doesn't inherently mean nerfing it. If the points a dragon gave were based on what element it last spent n days in, then the big flights would benefit - they're now getting earth/fire/water's dom points multiplier for the dragon instead of their own low one.
Finding a way of balancing that would be hard as hell, because boarding etc, but anything else is either a blanket solution that makes things harder for everyone or trying to affect player culture... which is a convoluted nightmare.
I might be de-anonning myself, but it makes me laugh that everyone's talking about earth's aesthetic being the reason they've lasted so much longer than other flights as the dom top dog, because when I came up with it a couple years back it was not a popular theory.
(pre-emptive edit - not saying I'm the only one that came up with it on their own, but I'd never seen it raised before I did)