Forum: empire-en
Board: [590] Ideas, Suggestions & Feedback
Topic: [384330] No Pay2Win Subscription based server
[-384330]
Takashi (RO1) [RO1]
:: Nov. 29, 2021, noon
Basically, a global server with no in game purchases other than cosmetics. I'm sure a lot of old players that gave up on the game because of it's pay2win would play on this server, and maybe it could even bring new players? Certainly more than the current servers...
Now, onto how GGE could make money out of it:
-Subscriptions 5-15$ a month (100k players = 0.5-1.5mil$ a month = 6-18mil a year, but i'm sure we could gather more players - 50 mil new registration just in 2015 alone (including the other titles but we already know empire is the no1) well, idk the exact numbers for 2021(clearly a lot lower) but with this ideea we should rise them up a bit
-Cosmetics (PURELY cosmetic) You could make the castle and commanders aspects anywhere from 10 to 50$, i'm sure there's gonna be plenty of ppl to buy them on a non pay2win server, you could change the flags so it shows the icons on the map and maybe even inside the castle etc and ask money for extra colors or more symbols(instead of making flags for bonuses we could finally make them for the design), map skins, customizable info thingy, fking colored names, buildings aspects, solider skins even
-Quality of life stuff like auto sell equipments based on certain criteria(yeah, I know we already have these) and presets for atacks, bird etc
Now, onto extra things that could make this server better
-Remove relic equipment, it was way more fun when you had to farm equipments from npcs and make combinations, it also put a bit more emphasis on strategy unlike these new relic commands, all pieces pretty much have the same bonuses, just different amounts. Oh but the relic hero effects are pretty cool ( bonus production, order, extra damage for certain units etc), you should keep these and maybe add some of the effects on the relic gems to the normal ones
-Make capitals and metros relevant again, either remove the new troops or make the ones from capitals better and exclusive or just very hard to get, at this point the capitals and metros serve as just an extra outpost for the big money spenders and that's extra sad
-Mead troops and the new tools are just bleah but that's just my opinion
-Bring back all events from lvl 10
Vote, comment with ideeas/pros/cons etc and spread the post to as many ppl as posible if you like these ideeas
Now, onto how GGE could make money out of it:
-Subscriptions 5-15$ a month (100k players = 0.5-1.5mil$ a month = 6-18mil a year, but i'm sure we could gather more players - 50 mil new registration just in 2015 alone (including the other titles but we already know empire is the no1) well, idk the exact numbers for 2021(clearly a lot lower) but with this ideea we should rise them up a bit
-Cosmetics (PURELY cosmetic) You could make the castle and commanders aspects anywhere from 10 to 50$, i'm sure there's gonna be plenty of ppl to buy them on a non pay2win server, you could change the flags so it shows the icons on the map and maybe even inside the castle etc and ask money for extra colors or more symbols(instead of making flags for bonuses we could finally make them for the design), map skins, customizable info thingy, fking colored names, buildings aspects, solider skins even
-Quality of life stuff like auto sell equipments based on certain criteria(yeah, I know we already have these) and presets for atacks, bird etc
Now, onto extra things that could make this server better
-Remove relic equipment, it was way more fun when you had to farm equipments from npcs and make combinations, it also put a bit more emphasis on strategy unlike these new relic commands, all pieces pretty much have the same bonuses, just different amounts. Oh but the relic hero effects are pretty cool ( bonus production, order, extra damage for certain units etc), you should keep these and maybe add some of the effects on the relic gems to the normal ones
-Make capitals and metros relevant again, either remove the new troops or make the ones from capitals better and exclusive or just very hard to get, at this point the capitals and metros serve as just an extra outpost for the big money spenders and that's extra sad
-Mead troops and the new tools are just bleah but that's just my opinion
-Bring back all events from lvl 10
Vote, comment with ideeas/pros/cons etc and spread the post to as many ppl as posible if you like these ideeas
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Tyrion2 (US1) [US1]
:: Dec. 27, 2021, 10:27 p.m.
So GGE's idea of balanced appears to be nothing more than another pay2win concession to the wealthier players...what's new? NOT A SINGLE THING
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zaphod (US1) [US1]
:: Feb. 20, 2022, 1:30 p.m.
They gave the average player the blacksmith and we could get unlimited horsetails. Suddenly we were able to compete with the whales in the glory events. So this would not do and they changed it and limited what we could get by making the unlimited slot far to costly. We got the fusion forge and suddenly the average player was able to take a 400/800 deco and boost it to over 1100 PO and somewhat close the PO gap between the norms and whales. So they changed it and now the items you used to make an 1100 PO deco now only gets you about 600 PO. Funny i can find nothing in the forum about this. Then we got the option to boost our glory targets, once again it gave us a shot to go big and keep pace. So of course GGE took that away. Yet they send out the surveys asking how we feel about the game? Obviously the results are deleted without looking because no one is happy with the game. Just look around on US1. My neighborhood a year and a half ago was wall to wall castles, now it's a ghost town with no new players joining. They gave us build items to let us close the food gap, but not without a catch. To build them you have to play the outer events the only place to get the resources needed to build them and create events that allow the whales to buy lv 70 from the jump and attack lv 15 players without penalty. The fact that any non ruby player does this events to help further the wales accts is beyond me. This could all be solved by using the same metric they have in the collector events, the code has already been written. The bugs and out dated shops and rewards are one thing but the outright greed GGE shows by catering to the ruby whales is unconscionable.
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Blackblade917 (US1) [US1]
:: March 6, 2022, 6:48 a.m.
Well said.Tyrion2 (US1) said:So GGE's idea of balanced appears to be nothing more than another pay2win concession to the wealthier players...what's new? NOT A SINGLE THING
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Blackblade917 (US1) [US1]
:: March 6, 2022, 6:50 a.m.
Even more well said.zaphod (US1) said:They gave the average player the blacksmith and we could get unlimited horsetails. Suddenly we were able to compete with the whales in the glory events. So this would not do and they changed it and limited what we could get by making the unlimited slot far to costly. We got the fusion forge and suddenly the average player was able to take a 400/800 deco and boost it to over 1100 PO and somewhat close the PO gap between the norms and whales. So they changed it and now the items you used to make an 1100 PO deco now only gets you about 600 PO. Funny i can find nothing in the forum about this. Then we got the option to boost our glory targets, once again it gave us a shot to go big and keep pace. So of course GGE took that away. Yet they send out the surveys asking how we feel about the game? Obviously the results are deleted without looking because no one is happy with the game. Just look around on US1. My neighborhood a year and a half ago was wall to wall castles, now it's a ghost town with no new players joining. They gave us build items to let us close the food gap, but not without a catch. To build them you have to play the outer events the only place to get the resources needed to build them and create events that allow the whales to buy lv 70 from the jump and attack lv 15 players without penalty. The fact that any non ruby player does this events to help further the wales acts is beyond me. This could all be solved by using the same metric they have in the collector events, the code has already been written. The bugs and out dated shops and rewards are one thing but the outright greed GGE shows by catering to the ruby whales is unconscionable.