Their are problems with this game at iys core that cant be fixed with band aids. Start fresh will let them fix those at start , everyone will be starting near same and can emphisize wars more. Or we can let them milk this game and your bank accounts for another 1-2 years before they shut it down.
Don't start fresh. Create a new app that's like the beginning of KaW and let people choose their course.
Why does everyone think they should be able to be build complete? You either work at it for years and Pay, games wouldn't be fun if the hardest part of the game was obtainable
If ata decide to start fresh it would only alienate every player that has ever spent on this game and throw away every action and second that has been invested in the game. Not to mention the trust of their customers. New lowlands is not a band aid. It is a method to aid new and small players and the community in an equal manner. It will ease the growth curb and aid the small especially to grow at a faster rate. A permanent gold boost in order to grow and compete at a reasonable rate. Calling for the end of kaw offers nothing. As much as I could argue with the devs over faults based on the perspective of a player, it is useless. What is more appealing is trying to bring forward a proposal that could actually help the community move forward.
The debate is not whether free to play players can win. That's pointless we need pay to play players and they rightly grow faster and have over priced allies. The point is not to make it so that free players can win and compete at the same level. Do not confuse the issues. The lb and everyone down would benefit from new lands that are cheap and buildings that are affordable. The new players will gain those lands before going for hf and abysmal lands. The purpose is solely to reduce the amount of time it takes to build complete from an insane amount of time to an acceptable level where even the free and new players say " yes this game is worth the effort I can achieve that target" Hte and the like will offer more gold. Pay to play will still gain more. But new players will have an achievable task that may inspire additional spending. Who will spend or play when they cannot see a way to achieve the endgame. The endgame is not build complete. It is to war relatively risk free. No build risk. To play the game as a complete kingdom. This won't solve the allies being overpriced. But it will make it easier to grow. It will add appeal to the game. That combined with a new app advert that promotes the chat, strategy, and forum madness this game offers. The diverse cultures that this game community brings together in a free to communicate app that is essentially a chat app with a game as and added bonus is where the focus should be. I would also like to see a like and dislike button and counter added to forums btw just to chuck that out there.
Swift the best part of the game is not being build complete. It's using your kingdom to fight. Being build complete is the best way to be able to do that. After all do you take a knife to war or a raptor. This isn't a building game. It's a war game that has become dominated by growing kingdoms, not warring them. If people wanted that they could just go play an app about little blue people, because they sure aren't here to war so why play?
And 25 lands with extra plunder producing buildings that they can get early similar to current lowlands will aid those players specifically. I know I am one of them and can't be on 24/7 not would I want to be. Giving them extra gold is exactly the type of restricted time for growth player this would help.
Start fresh will piss off those who played for year YEA but guess how pissed their gona be when its shut down. Lmao three people i know in rl already quit after 6 months because its clear the top end is growing at a rate 10x faster than the bottom can unless of course new people want to SPEND MONEY!!! Overall partisapation is falling off a cliff so you long timer big spenders yell all you want . Its not fair to restart ... i predict 18 months tops this game goes the way of GaW
Ok first and foremost, support on another well thought out and entertaining thread op. Now, as op said this idea would make things more appeal to new players. Why would anyone argue with that? New players means that kaw will continue to thrive. Now, it does not hinder any players that are BC or just getting near it at all. As op said large players could go llbc again in a month or less. Pay to play players or successful ally traders a couple hours easily. Lastly, I fail to see why the proposed theory has anyone complaining. New players growing could also mean more warring players as well as more pay to play players. Generating more income thus expanding kaws life that much longer.
Just look at the dev actions the last two years .. has it been to fix the problems with WAR in their WAR game? NOPE its all been geared towards income $$ production. Theirs your proff their gona milk this puppy to the end NOT fix the game.
U worry on the devs pocketbook n be judge n jury. I'll choose to be an optimist n KaW will improve warring. As a previous Op said fixating on BC is hardly what KaW is about. Sure EB only clans choose so..thats what they like. The warring community is in need of more fixes n EB's/Events community r doin fine. OSW n EE n PVP should be priority.
With new lands and buildings , xstal and seal sales prob thru the roof. Why we not seen any events/promos for two weeks. But as soon as sales slip POW New Event .... Wheres Waldo .. he is hiding in some eb ( hte , rowb wink wink ) Go forth and collect the most waldos and get new equip .. Waldos Beenie of Noobhood !!! Oh dont forget for only 100 nobs you can cast waldos stinky sox spell that will double your event drops for one hour Lol
Nighthawk, dev have not fix wars for two years so what makes you think they will start now? Went everything they done has nothing to do with fixing wars.
This is a great idea. In fact one so great it has been proposed several times and backed by several mods. It has the potential to increase playability and promote growth for new and small players. It balances many issues and could stabilize the game. Unfortunately the devs are not interested in stability. In spite of what they may say they have seen the writing on the wall. They are simply milking the game for as much as they can until it is no longer profitable. Then it will close down and they will move on to the next project. Save your breath about business models or customer satisfaction being key to long term viability. They aren't interested. Enjoy the next 12-18 months Kaw has left. Glad I got my money out of it while the getting was good. That's what the devs will be saying in the not so distant future.
Build complete is the domain of the 1% and a fantasy for the rest of us. The rate of new land and building upgrades assures this.