Is there too much gold in the economy currently? That is my question I ask to you all. The reason I ask is I notice I dropped from about 1450 on ally hire cost value to 2100 in about a weeks time. I thought that was a pretty drastic jump. I dont care about my LB ranks I play for fun, but thought it was strange. Since the great "gold bank" of ally price surge of the last PVP event, the ally hires have seemed to steadily stayed pretty constant of alot of 3 Tril ally hires. That tells me that there is alot of HFBC with tons of gold and are stacking BFA (not a bad thing). With so much HTE, crux chests, promos, building tokens and plunder bonuses in the game right now, there is an excess of gold, that was usually dealt with by taking gold out with lands and upgrades. With so many HFBC that option is taken out and kept in the economy, and will stay there unless a giant OSW takes some back out. Which leads me to believe devs have started planning new lands, or HL lvl 5 building upgrades and will be coming in the near future. I know that this has been brought up before, but even with out any confirmation or word from the Devs, this seems like it could be the logical next step for KaW. I for one dont really have a strong opinion for or against new Lands/Upgrades, but im sure alot of you players do. I can see both positive and negative reasons for a new gold sink. Sorry for the lack of BB or pictures, Im more of a forum reader / lurker, not a poster. (And remember to view things from a different perspective, and to keep an open mind. Dont let emotion and impulsion affect your decisions you make in life!)
KaW is flooded with gold for certain. Just 2 days ago. Cella and another one of her alts hired a 100bil inactive off me and volleyed it to 4.6tril. That just shows the lbs have more than enough money just on their alts too.
there are other potential outlets for gold than buildings and land. the devs could innovate a bit with the market. maybe put "bling" for sale on the marketplace for ridiculously high prices.
i guess that depends on how you look at it. percent wise, how many hfbc accounts are there compared to active accounts? is 1% too high? 3% or 4%?
If they actually release new lands and/or new lvls, they should do it after news years. Kinda like a "SURPRISE, HAPPY 2015, NOW SPEND SOME HOLIDAY MONEY ON US"
The influx of gold is good for new players who dont want to stay under 1mcs for months while the pay2play HTE-ers run away on the LB. The way to keep people in the game is to offer them enough gold to feel they are progressing fast. Yes, LB gets richer and richer every day, but they also are losing the most in pots and allies resetting/quitting. If the game has too much inflation, we'll get new pots to burn them off or another type of consumable item. Id like to see opt out (which is most likely going to stay in some way) to tax like mithril does, incremental cost increase based on BFA. That would make it costly to opt out of pvp events. Perhaps making eb events cost more fake gold to buy into an event in the front end, instead of spinning tops for 1 gold
Of course there is too much gold in the system. We need to stop it... Every option has positives and negatives though...