Forum: empire-en
Board: [590] Ideas, Suggestions & Feedback
Topic: [382016] Free to Play. Blacksmith Downgrade. (dumbing down)
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Mrblowinchunks (US1) [US1]
:: June 7, 2021, 11:54 p.m.
Yeah no. No one is getting top 3 in KL without spending. Anyone who claims to be a non-spender and get top 3 is lying. Time skips are too much of a limiting factor for non-spenders to get top positions in KL. Granted f2p players were able to do fair in KL with consistency, but top 3 is a blatant lie.Poseidon X Angel said:Hi, time for an unpopular opinion, in a minute...
Before I get blasted I would like to say I am not a fan of this change as I believe it's been taken a step too far. Having said that.
I don't think a none spender should be able to get a top 3 placing in the final bracket of the kingdom league. This event is meant to be competitive and if you can get top 3 without spending there's not a big enough incentive to spend money on the game. Which is bad from a business perspective.
I believe you can play to compete without spending but not play to win. It all depends on what you expect from yourself and the game. I am a small-ish spender but I don't expect to win events nor am I upset when I don't get a high placing.
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Mrblowinchunks (US1) [US1]
:: June 7, 2021, 11:59 p.m.
The studio has been adapting to inflation. Why do you think the mead/honey researches are 350M coins? Why do you think it would take 2 years to recruit enough mead troops to fill your castles (if you have all the mead infrastructure in place) for nearly a billion coins? If they want to take this route, those numbers better come down. They were only acceptable before since we could actually get good coins from nomads. With that being removed, what justifies these ridiculous coin requirements?Poseidon X Angel said:Crom has been busy over on the discord server, he spent the entire Friday speaking to players both in chats and in voice calls. As for me being torn, I understand why the studio has to combat inflation, but I don't like the way they went about doing so. As for what I have been asked to do, quite literally, I haven't been asked to do anything nor to do nothing.
Just decided to jump on here and inform you guys and try to answer some questions.
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Lemmings (INT3) [INT3]
:: June 8, 2021, 12:40 a.m.
I'm a F2P player and I agree this latest upgrade to the MB has really made you thing twice about playing, there is no way of being able to be competive in the events. You say F2P but I'm get smashed by adverts so GGE are making money out of me every time I play.
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Magus the Great (DE1) [DE1]
:: June 8, 2021, 10:27 p.m.
Lee_41 (US1) said:...
Having easy access to the tools in the Blacksmith eliminated the need to spend hours on the game hitting mindlessly to reach a certain point.... now the time to finish an event has increased dramatically unless you buy a boost ... a really big boost .. so the time playing the game has increased... and its boring to hit camps for 75 tablets 800x to finish an event... less if your hitting the khan I guess
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800x75 is just 60000, you need at least 175k.So 800 is very far away to "finish" an event.
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poiuyt (WORLD1) [None]
:: June 9, 2021, 10:23 a.m.
i don't thkink it will be reverted this friday
and let's see what fake news in store this weekend
and let's see what fake news in store this weekend
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Queenrider (GB1) [GB1]
:: June 11, 2021, 9:10 a.m.
Yep, put me out of it tbh, I'm just doing what I need to keep my troops fed now and then finding something else to do with my time:(
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fierdragon (GB1) [GB1]
:: June 11, 2021, 9:58 a.m.
With the cost of the event tools/carts going up and getting less of them for it and having the event rewards at a higher reward point it seems pointless trying so hard in events now.
Il work to a certian point that realistic then stop with several days of the event left to go
Il work to a certian point that realistic then stop with several days of the event left to go
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Mrblowinchunks (US1) [US1]
:: June 11, 2021, 9:23 p.m.
Yep. They are trying to revert to how the events used to function even though the game has changed. About 10 minutes of eventing every 3-4 days. I'm not about to train nomads for 75 tickets a hit. I'd rather stare at a white wall all day.fierdragon (GB1) said:With the cost of the event tools/carts going up and getting less of them for it and having the event rewards at a higher reward point it seems pointless trying so hard in events now.
Il work to a certian point that realistic then stop with several days of the event left to go
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Poseidon [Moderator]
:: June 11, 2021, 9:27 p.m.
That's not the reason behind this change.Mrblowinchunks (US1) said:Yep. They are trying to revert to how the events used to function even though the game has changed. About 10 minutes of eventing every 3-4 days. I'm not about to train nomads for 75 tickets a hit. I'd rather stare at a white wall all day.fierdragon (GB1) said:With the cost of the event tools/carts going up and getting less of them for it and having the event rewards at a higher reward point it seems pointless trying so hard in events now.
Il work to a certian point that realistic then stop with several days of the event left to go
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Wasso (INT3) [INT3]
:: June 11, 2021, 9:36 p.m.
But, it IS the result..........Poseidon X Angel said:That's not the reason behind this change.Mrblowinchunks (US1) said:Yep. They are trying to revert to how the events used to function even though the game has changed. About 10 minutes of eventing every 3-4 days. I'm not about to train nomads for 75 tickets a hit. I'd rather stare at a white wall all day.fierdragon (GB1) said:With the cost of the event tools/carts going up and getting less of them for it and having the event rewards at a higher reward point it seems pointless trying so hard in events now.
Il work to a certian point that realistic then stop with several days of the event left to go
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dandelion1958 (GB1) [GB1]
:: June 12, 2021, 1:15 p.m.
Magus the Great (DE1) said:Top 50... even before those changes it was absolutely impossible to get near level 50 at the end of the kings league at the german server.I dont think I ever managed to be top 300 at the end of the event. But always in top 1k.With this changes I will have 0 chance to get near that rank because every little spender, knowing how to play will be with very little effort, above me in every single event.It will clearly not pay off to make an efford. It has always been clear for every non spender that we have to run more. But now you can forget that this will help you at all. Thats frustrating.No fun at all to play. Why should I run xx hours Nomads to still end at last or second last position in the league? The "fun" to run exactly the same attack 1 million times in a row has always been lets sah hmm mediocre. If I now get nothing for this efford I will obviously not run.
At least you had 2 weeks to prepare after they removed all the chests etc from the french and uk servers - i advised people to "stock up" on whats left - as to inflation I rarely got abpve 100k silver as was buying tools for the next event all the time - gold i save up and am buying the districts ! - and don't get me started on the mead debacle - needless to say i wont be doing the conversion to mead troops any time soon as i cant gain enough sceats for the research !
PS btw I now just use enough tools to gain the 2500PO items as top 100 needs a lot more tools on uk1 - nomads usually about 420k points for top 100 though not sure of current for glory events as really can't be bothered to push ! - if looking for a server move !