I'll be honest I STILL don't fully understand the logic behind "we want to reduce the number of leaders, so we are going to make it so governors which used to benefit an entire sector will now benefit only one planet at a time".
To be honest, "Grand Strategy" is sort of deliberately targeting that demographic. And besides that, this isn't really "min/maxing". This is "My governor has a trait that very clearly does absolutely nothing if I have them sitting on a planet that doesn't need to build anything". It's actually kind of a reasonable train of thought.
But also there is no mechanism to stop you from doing this. If the governors now are designed to affect only one planet - constantly switching them between the planets can be considered as an exploit. And the exploits must be fixed.
So? That community is allergic to fun. Who cares what they do.
"No one's forcing you to play the game" is NEVER an excuse for objectively bad design.
Minmaxers will always make themselves miserable. If you want to try to design around that, I've got this boulder I want you to roll to the top of a hill.
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This is clearly not a part of the game design, and not how governors are intended to be used. Yes, there is an oversight that allows this loophole to be used to squeeze out a tiny bit more efficiency, but that has not been designed - it's just a loophole found by people looking for work. There will always be loopholes and bugs and oversights that can be exploited.
This is how they have been used for 7 years, and you are still able to use the same "exploit" as you have for that entire time, only it applies to individual planets now making it even more annoying. As stated above though, this is a trait that helps us build cheaper and faster, why would we not apply it any time we build? What else is there to do with my single Governor.
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Paragons has some incredibly strange choices. Buffs to already strong things, nerfs to weak things, and some rather baffling choices for mechanics and limitations.
Because people are claiming this is something that needs to be fixed. This is clearly an adaptation made by players to make the most of this leader trait, and now that it only applies to planets through the recent changes it is maybe time to review it since clearly some players use this and it is now much worse to do.
No one is forcing you to play the game either. This is an atrocious argument altogether. Governors rule sectors, full stop. Their traits very much used to affect the entire sector and there's no reason to change that. The decision to do so is incredibly strange and baffling, especially combined with the MASSIVE reduction in leaders Empire's get.
Because they've effectively nerfed governors. They massively reduced the number of leaders, which makes using governors questionable to begin with. Then they also went and nerfed governors themselves, for absolutely no good reason. Ensuring their traits only affect a singular planet rather than an entire sector the way they used to. It almost feels like two different people who never talked to each other made these decisions.
Man, you must have read where the devs recommend this then. Please point that out to me. Thank you.
What kind of non argument is this? The Devs LITERALLY nerfed Governors, they took the traits that prior affected an entire sector and made it only affect a single planet. Even talking about it in one of the dev diaries. Which means they outright increased the need for governors in terms of getting the same benefits out of them one used to get.
This is just moving the goal post endlessly. Whether they "intended" it is entirely irrelevant, it's the outcome they created via adding an unnecessary, baffling, and contradictory change to governors. They intentionally changed how they work, taking the traits and causing them to only affect a singular planet. Which makes governors, even with buffed traits, much less valuable and beneficial.
