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Peronally my main complain about community balance, and I'il repeat myself. A lot of changes sometimes feel like they are bandage changes. "The Scope™" is the worst approach to balance CoH2. Penals are the best example.
Actually it is not the "scope" that is the problem. Scope was is helpful since it allows to make target changes and then adjust.
Imo the problem start with changes that where too ambitious. The first patch attempted to "fix" 3 factions at the same and introduced so massive changes that they where actually redesigning the factions.
When the problems started to appear instead of rolling back some of there changes, they continued down the same path into uncharted break an at least equal number of thing as they where fixing.
It simply the moderation team too long to realize that balancing can not be achieved big changes and number of small changes should be tried. Funny thing is that I have been pointing out this since day one.