This is how you counter Bertha...no need to nerf it GoogleFrog !

This is not the game you want to put forth as an example of good Bertha use. moepmoep had his Bertha idle and set to Hold Fire for quite a while after it was completed. Nerfing range is very worrying but I think it will take a bit of time to see its effect.

quote: the balance you make has a lot of flaws and it will remain as such until you discuss with the most experienced player base in the game about the balance. Forget about me and my expectations...but you never ask the player base most of the time when you implement something. At least be the top 1-5 player in teams and constantly have 5 hours of gameplay per day.

psaniac, top 15: made the original suggestion to reduce Bertha range
Kingstad, top 5:

quote: The shorter you decide to make its range the more it will matter to give it grid requirement, so do both.

Zenfur, top 1:

quote: +1 for reduced range by 10-15%

usually we do not have sufficient data for "save" balancing. but bertha has been such a thing in clusterfucks for the last year or so that i think it´s pretty save to assume something should be done with it.

but i have to stress that, at least for me, it´s not a question of if bertha is counterable or not, it´s more if it creates fun gameplay for both sides, wich it clearly doesnt.

I personally would remove it from the game because i don´t see a need for such a unit. you have cerberus for arty-defense, nuke and superweapons as game-enders. Berthas stats are somewhere in between and i don´t really get what intersting niche this thing is supposed to fill...

But on the other hand i totally get why people want to keep it in the game as it is nice to use if you like big guns...

Forever: as much as I disagree with GoogleFrog in so many things, i need to say that you should think of his situation as well. Imagine dozends of people yelling their different opinions to you. you are always going to piss someone off.
i wouldn´t want to be in this situation.