Just out of curiosity, and apologies if this has already been asked/answered, does the time reset every time someone randomly hires one of my allies and I buy it back?
Well I guess they took away the problem of people resetting on you for the bonus. So I'm not too worried about this now. Not a huge fan of them taking away reset bonuses, but those probably never should have been part of the game to begin with. At least not after they added the highlands. Looking forward to achievement bonuses. Been a long time coming. The major complaint I have with this game now is that so little of your strength comes from your troops and spies now. The strength you get pots, spells, equipment, permenent items, and allies , does not go down when your troops are low. But all you have to do to prevent someone from attacking you is kill your troops off. If it effected your plunder more like it does with spies people might try to keep their troops high, but the majority of your plunder comes from your ally bonus. This makes fighting from dtw the only strategy that makes sense in war.
I not gonna waste time reading all the post in here and just throw in my 2 cents which I doubt will sway the devs , still more ppl telling them no. Yet again bigger players get a advantage and you want to mess it up for the smaller guys too, if I ever achieve lc I would like to be able to transfer gold to grow my alt. Plus unless your gonna double eb pay out rather than dropping it from what it original was what are the rest of us spossed to do start spending real life cash on a game just to keep up with all the players already lc or buying nobility.
I have been following the other threads about changing the rewards for resets and how now players have no reason to reset. That by the way is a bunch of crap and unfair to the players that put the time in to reset. But ppl are saying that solves the problem of the 4.5% reset problem. Well it does not. What about when the Devs do their sweeps of older accts? I have a ton of small allies and if I get some crappy return of 4.5% when the Devs forcibly reset some, I'm going to be pissed. So yes the Devs are creating a new problem and a lot of anger with their new announcement about resets - but let's also not forget that this update for reset compensation also needs to be stopped. Why not keep the rate at 60% if an ally resets on its own OR if the Devs reset. It's still a loss.
If an ally resets or especially if devs force a reset, the full 60% of that ally should be put inro a new "pending 15 day reserve" at minimum. 95% loss on large allies really is pathetic considering all the work it takes to earn that.
This change is now live. We are dedicated in ensuring the fair game play for everyone and many players may not realize why this change was made. We have a few more points to add to explain further. -Many players were concerned about having players reset on them when ally trading at smaller ranges. We realize that the reset bonuses are no longer rewarding and easily accomplished for what was supposed to be a difficult task. So we have taken this time as the opportunity to end reset bonuses and give everyone a chance for equal footing. This will also stop players from resetting to acquire reset bonuses because there is no longer an incentive to do so. -The other concern was that this is essentially killing off system wars. This is not our intention at all. If anything we have evened the playing field. Players cannot spend an exorbitant amount of real money to acquire trillions of gold to volley to their main accounts or fund strips. This is a big problem as well because they are essentially bypassing the purchasing limit. We will however have an idea in the works that will still add to the strategy of off system wars by maybe introducing some anonymity. -Also finally, we would never involuntarily remove a player from the game that would cause you to lose less then the default 60 percent.
@KaW "-Many players were concerned about having players reset on them when ally trading at smaller ranges. We realize that the reset bonuses are no longer rewarding and easily accomplished for what was supposed to be a difficult task. This will also stop players from resetting to acquire reset bonuses because there is no longer an incentive to do so." You obviously haven't read all the complains about this have you? Almost everyone who plays KaW ( at least the ones that war) own an alt, or several. Do you realize when it's an alt, people don't normally give a rats ass about the alt. If it gets bought, or stripped during a war, We can simply reset the alt on the player, they just lost 100b or more. Do you honestly think that this scenario never happens? It happened before this update, and will continue to happen. You aren't fixing your problems at all, Only creating new ones while trying to "fix" things. I've got no problem resetting any of my alts personally, I still profit from it. The person who buys it however loses it all. You're slowly, slowly killing people's want for war.
Sorry kaw admin, that doesn't make me feel more secure. It would work if I hired an ally and held them for a while and knew they were inactive and I was "safe" that if you did a sweep I would get 60%. But what if I trade in small allies and I buy several and the very next day happens to be the day you sweep for inactives. As MANY have stated, you can have your new idiotic changes for when a player DECIDES to drop, but if we have no control over it we should at least get 60% (most ppl think more but I'm trying to be reasonable)
Darling devs, perhaps I'm confused by the description of the changes you have described in this thread. However, unless there are other hidden mechanics you will be changing, which you have NOT yet informed us about, the changes you are making with this update only makes volleying/transferring more painful for us but will NOT stop rich players from transferring trillions in a single day. If you need help on the mechanics of your own game, I along with MANY other vets would be happy to explain it you.
Were more then willing to listen LP. By the way the 15 day counter resets every time the ally is hired.
Thank you for replying directly. But to clarify, are you saying that you are going to watch each persons accts to ensure that when you do a reset sweep that they do NOT lose 95% on allies? Because as I stated I already own a very large number of small allies and I have only been concerned on stats and not on activity. If you can guarantee that I won't lose billions and billions during reset sweeps I'd be more than glad. But I don't think you can do that without not implementing the new 4.5% - 60% system. Place elaborate on what you will do to ensure I won't lose money when you forcible reset accts
Neither of this happens, there is a threshold and we check prior to ensure you would not receive anything lower then 60 percent. Example you hire an inactive ally today, it is involuntarily removed tomorrow causing you to incur a loss greater then 60 percent. We have added a check so that this specifically does not happen. The new drop varying percent rate does not affect this.
Again thank you for the response. IF this is indeed true then it has allayed some of my fears. I remain skeptical but I truly hope this is the case. It seems more than fair that people should get at least 60% like we are used to getting when we have 0 control of the person resetting. Obviously there is always a risk buying smaller accts, but getting 4.5% back would not be fair. Thank you and I'll be watching ...