Forum: empire-en

Board: [590] Ideas, Suggestions & Feedback

Topic: [365053] Relic Troops (gold cost)

[-365053] Morentz (US1) [US1] :: June 15, 2019, 11:04 a.m.

I'm surprised there hasn't been more complaints regarding the cost of the new Relic troops you can recruit from the Relic Barracks.

2000+ gold for 1 Relic Ranged attacker.

For a full 6-wave army (assuming 2800 in an army), thats over 5.6mil gold.

Is this not a bit ridiculous?

For the vast majority of people on GGE, its unfeasible to recruit these troops. Why isn't the price balanced, so that the new troops are actually worth getting?

They should only cost a little more than Spearwomen/Berserkers.

I highly suggest this is brought to the attention of the development team, and rectified. As it stands, hardly anyone is recruiting/using these new troops due to the ridiculous balancing of their gold cost.

[5057485] Yakuza (LT1) [LT1] :: June 15, 2019, 12:20 p.m.

Or maybe no one upgrading barracks or not recruiting them or just fed up complaining  
Well about price you are right. This is ridiculous...... for that reason and  I don't even bother to improve barracks and just waste tokens (because tokens are VERY EASY to get afterall). 
I do not understand just one thing - if  GGE creates soldiers, which are 6,9 times more expensive (1242/180 = 6,9 with -40% construction) compare to Spearwomen, so why WE do not get from events 6,9 times more gold ? Or at least 5 times more....

[5057496] Blitzkrieg (GB1) [GB1] :: June 15, 2019, 2:13 p.m.

The new attackers are super powerful and comparable to ruby bought troops, which give an option for free to play players to get their hands on stronger troops.

Although yes the price is still absurd, and it should be more like 1/2 or 1/3rd of the current prices

[5057581] Wasso (INT3) [INT3] :: June 15, 2019, 11:42 p.m.

Blitzkrieg (GB1) said:

The new attackers are super powerful and comparable to ruby bought troops, which give an option for free to play players to get their hands on stronger troops.

Perhaps.  But, not nearly worth the coin it takes for F2P.  



Imp Marksmen are -22 Range compared to Relic Shortbowman.  Is 22 Range REALLY worth 1,765 coins?
Imp Knights are -26 Melee compare to Relic Axemen.  Again, is 26 Melee REALLY worth 1,745 coins?
(Yes, these are full price comparisons.  You CAN lower the cost using the Build Items)

Let's look at them a different way:  According to the Travelling Merchant, a Ruby is worth between 9 and 11 coins, depending on how many you buy.  Figuring he is out to make a profit, lets bring that up to 15 coins per ruby.  Is the Relic SB worth 138 Rubies and the Relic AM worth 137 Rubies Each?  I don't know.  What DOES a Vet Horror of each type Cost in Rubies????

Since the Relic SB is -21 range to a Vet Deathly and the Relic AM is -31 Melee to a Vet Demon, perhaps that IS how GGS justifies it.  But, the jump in coin from 305 to 2070 each brings up MORE than sticker shock...……..

[5057590] bernhardt (US1) [US1] :: June 16, 2019, 3:46 a.m.

I can believe the lack of bitching and crying on the relic troops.  Main reason being that with all the WTF changes/bugs by GGE of late that are unavoidable(the food bug for one) why bother worrying/yammering about the cost of some inferior troops you can get if you upgrade your barracks instead of say building and upgrading a greenhouse which provides 1k+ food/hr.

[5057637] MUSHY (AU1) [AU1] :: June 16, 2019, 11:08 a.m.

The fact that you don't need to techy them, I think it is fair and very much worth doing.

[5057649] Philt123 (GB1) [GB1] :: June 16, 2019, 12:55 p.m.

i have never seen anyone actually using em,  no one in my alliance is even bothereing to upgrade baracks, the fact no one is upgrading or building these troops tells you all you need to know in players minds its simply not worth it.

Just like the relik woodcutter, just like the military Acadamy.   Again pretty much pointless.

I am not really sure what GGE are thinking  at the moment, there is currently a pretty big dissconnect betweeen what players think is useful and worthwhile and what GGE are putting into the game.

Even when it does put new content into the game it doesnt work.

The NPC casts still dont work, so are clogging up our tiny equipment store with stuff that doesnt actually work, its simply not good enough.

[5057657] Venom (ASIA1) [ASIA1] :: June 16, 2019, 2:23 p.m.

FabulousMUSHY (AU1) said:

The fact that you don't need to techy them, I think it is fair and very much worth doing.

Personally never teched a troop before. 

[5057683] Player X (GB1) [GB1] :: June 16, 2019, 6:57 p.m.

These troops are really far too expensive. For a fraction of the price I can recruit troops who are slightly weaker, consume far less food and can be recruited more quickly. The costs of upgrading the barracks are also very large- shouldn't upgrades only cost upgrade tokens?

GGE should either reduce both of these prices or ensure that wining upgrade tokens and construction tokens is easier and more common.

[5138005] Bingles (US1) [US1] :: July 28, 2020, 10:08 a.m.

Philt123 (GB1) said:

i have never seen anyone actually using em,  no one in my alliance is even bothereing to upgrade baracks, the fact no one is upgrading or building these troops tells you all you need to know in players minds its simply not worth it.

Just like the relik woodcutter, just like the military Acadamy.   Again pretty much pointless.

I am not really sure what GGE are thinking  at the moment, there is currently a pretty big dissconnect betweeen what players think is useful and worthwhile and what GGE are putting into the game.

Even when it does put new content into the game it doesnt work.

The NPC casts still dont work, so are clogging up our tiny equipment store with stuff that doesnt actually work, its simply not good enough.

I've seen people use them.

[5138470] BM_Thanatos [US1] :: July 30, 2020, 12:10 p.m.

They should get a lot more use since the price was dropped in last month's update!