I fail to understand what problem you have solved by removing gold from building drops. People who are on the leaderboard, Do not rely on dropping buildings for gold, instead on promos and hitting prems. This is a thing which helped smaller/mid tanks catch up by active gameplay and hopping for plates to drop later. This was something which gave you the same amount of gold regardless of your size, everyone will get 930t from dropping an fs, or 11q for dropping a pal. Taking that away means, one will have to xtal on a prem or a promo everytime they want to open any land when land costs are over 20q. This means, you're forced to xtal on a eb where you know you'll make like 1/10th of someone who is build complete. This doesn't address the gap between bigs and smalls, and as each promo passes by, The difference will keep on getting bigger. Smalls may be able to put a level 10 pal as soon as they open a land, but they'll take that much longer to open lands now, So it doesn't help smalls at all. If this continues, I can see EE being just a mere 1 vs 1 or 2 vs 2 based on a few top 20 albs casting which it already is to an extent. You all created this imbalance by doing a 100% promo along with a 300% crux, and then another 100% promo a month later, This change doesn't do anything to solve that. This only makes f2p gameplay harder. If you're just going to give back the gold in bars vs the crestplates earlier, then how does it resolve the problem of gold farming through a bunch of automated alts? They'll just unbank gold bars (which is more convenient) and do the same anyways? Buffing plate drops is great, Small/mids will be able to get to level 10 buildings quicker on existing open lands, it will stall as soon as they have to open a new land. And as bob mentioned, Buffing plunder on goth/noth which 85% of the community hits does is not comparable to buffing the plunder on HTR/NKs which only 15% have access to. From an EE perspective, Mids/smalls will rely on the 8-9q from gold bars while a few lcbc accounts can add 1000q+ easily every big promo. It's going to be really hard for someone returning to the game to build an account from scratch. Build swapping is a good idea, This is something that will be very useful for small/mid tanks, as they are heavily towered which kills their chance to make any significant gold on promo's. At least, this will help them compete better on promo's
One note the "Exception: low land & highlands" should this not also cover hoarfrost? Reason being if someone accidentally upgraded there lvl 1 troop build to lvl 2 they are perminantly stuck without access to glitchtroop? Same with spies. This will also effect war as tanks commonly need to remove GT before they war but it looks like they wont be able to?
Ouch. Selling down / rebuilding lvl8 FS buildings was the main way I've been generating a meaningful amount of gold / able to upgrade for the past couple of years. Maybe one final reset / land grab...
Same. 30bcs here. Selling FS buildings is my main way of getting enough gold to spend on pl/tt/sk and even good allies. What i’m getting from non-premium ebs is peanuts compared to selling fs buildings. Seems like they want everyone to just do premium ebs now to get lots of gold. I’ll probably see how much gold we can get for the full event cycle after march 4. If it’s not close to the previous selling method, i’ll just delete this game forever.
So you are cutting off one of the most effective growth strategies for new players - another indication of dev having no interest in future growth of the game . It’s also making it very hard for osw clans to grow thier kingdoms and fund strips . So you hasten the death of the game making growth and osw harder .
I now play because of addiction , comradeship and no viable alternative . You once promised the best game possible , what happened 🤣🤣🤣
*Update* Just sold all my DM, FS, Pal and TT buildings. Raised 277Q. Purchased 15 lands for the same 277Q. Build CS dropped from roughly 40M to 5.5M (sorry owner 😆) Was ranked about #1420 strongest. I now have 20 Pal lands, 19 TT and 19 SKI lands. Next ones cost me 18Q, 27Q and 42Q respectively. Assuming my normal gold production rate, this would take me between 9 - 21 mos apiece to earn one additional land. 😳 not sure I'll ever buy another piece of real estate. I'll post the actual lands costs on the main land / building cost thread. Bring on the new enhanced plate drops and higher gold %, as I need it!!! 😁 (my guess is I'll be back to where I was a year from now using plates)
So if someone who is lets say he PP building done & dont wanna convert build etc what does it help him with extra plate drop? It is already no use for that person becuse he cant use any of that becuse he is already BC on PP
It’s time to start selling buildings for as much land as you can buy, then just sit and wait for all those crestplate drops
People forget the easiest way to build gold in this game is through Allies being hired and the profit you make on that, I’m a heavy premium-epic battle type player and regardless of that Allie hires earn me the most gold by far