Vapula
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- Oct 17, 2022
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Hey lovely people and the community mods! I have a genuine question do you guys actually respect your F2P playerbase or has it all been thrown down the drain to cater to the whales?
So I have been conducting an experiment on whats the crown accumulation rate and I am absolutely thrilled to report that after a whole month of gathering I have successfully managed to gather full 180 crowns. Let that sink in, Yea you read that right 180 crowns in 30 days, now Mods have always said that they actively play the game but to me it seems that they either play a modded version that gives them unlimited resources or they get some sort of employee referral codes because no one who plays that game regularly would let this slide.
So heres some numbers from players that ACTUALLY play the game: I have an artifact which I wanted to reroll into All Enemy Defensive Tower HP and 9300 crowns in and I still havent gotten the line I am looking for, and thats 1 out of 8 artifacts that everyone at some point crafts and perfects with rerolls.
Sure not everyone might be as unlucky as me and would get lucky but still everyone spends atleast 20-30k crowns per set to get the desired lines and stats. And thats just 1 set, I still have my commando/Bazooka set from back in the days, on which again I would have spent 10-15k crowns atleast to get the best lines possible, Then I also have my high EDST set which I used to play with but with the recent D boosts and butchering of EDST now all the crowns invested in it (again atleast 15-20k) are just sitting idle collecing dust in my inventory... And what is to say a mortar nerf isnt incoming soon which would make my current set a waste as well, which would be another 10-15k crowns I will never get back and would be expected to build a totally different set asking for another 15-20k crowns.
Bottom line is museum is a forever evolving and forever crown-demanding building, and with the current rate of crown accumulation, no new player can think of staying F2P and have a relevant museum. Thats simply not happening..
And its not even the biggest crown drain because Council building exists, on my D account I have been meaning to get Epic Miyamoto for more than an year at this point and I have spent again 20-30k+ crowns easily on that account in council rerolls and still forced to use a Blue counselor.
My point is earlier you used to have 8 daily ads and no one really complained because everyday we were guranteed some crowns for the ads we watched and you gained a lot of ad revenue, you win I win everyone wins! but you decided to downsize the ads to only 4 per day and your "justification" was it was a QOL feature but you removed crowns from weekday ads, which we were still fine with because on weekends we were still getting some crowns (albeit it went down from 360ish to 300ish), but the recent changes were truthfully absolutely shameless F-you to the F2P playerbase and you tried to justify it by saying it was for the benefit of the players? Let me be the one to say it, I havent given a single flying fuck about the daily ads since the removal of crowns and I know many F2P players who would agree, so lets be real here; all you did was shoot yourself in the foot, was it fun? How about we forget about everything and go back to how it used to be when everyone used to be happy and content. In your AMA you said "making sure rewards on offer are meaningful" yet you continue to keep them as garbage they they can stay.
The divide between spenders and non-spenders on this game is already quite evident with broken TTs, extra buildings and hangers being available for crowns in shop and VIP store, theres no need to further increase that divide by making such essential parts of the game (museum and council) to also be so hard to craft for, newcomers, F2Ps and low spenders.
I am not someone who just likes to yell nonstop, so I also have a few suggestions regarding this situation:
1) Bring back crowns for ads on weekend ads. Yes they were less than what they used to be back in the 8 ad days but, still they were something and even a steady revenue of 300 crowns per week accumulates over time and its infinitely-infinitely better than the current rate of 180-200 per MONTH.
OR
2) Alternatively the reroll resource for museum and council can be switched to something accessible and possibly farmable, say 100 ruby per line for WW artifacts and 200k oil (for auto age and progressively gets lower for earlier ages) per line for Main Hall artifact. This kills 2 birds with 1 stone, a) it provides rubies a much better use than their current utility and b) incentivizes people to war or Raid in order to enhance their museums.
tldr: Crown accumulation rate is absoluely pathetic after the removal of ad for crowns so either bring it back or change museum/council rerolls resource to something which has a better accumulation rate as those buildings are forever evolving and thus need a constant stream of rerolls/crowns to stay relevant with the seasons and changing metas.
As always to the community: If you agree with whats said; raise your voice, like comment share! show them how bad the current crown generation rate is and that it needs a big change! And if theres anything I have missed or am wrong about the comment section is yours
Happy Playing <3
So I have been conducting an experiment on whats the crown accumulation rate and I am absolutely thrilled to report that after a whole month of gathering I have successfully managed to gather full 180 crowns. Let that sink in, Yea you read that right 180 crowns in 30 days, now Mods have always said that they actively play the game but to me it seems that they either play a modded version that gives them unlimited resources or they get some sort of employee referral codes because no one who plays that game regularly would let this slide.
So heres some numbers from players that ACTUALLY play the game: I have an artifact which I wanted to reroll into All Enemy Defensive Tower HP and 9300 crowns in and I still havent gotten the line I am looking for, and thats 1 out of 8 artifacts that everyone at some point crafts and perfects with rerolls.
Sure not everyone might be as unlucky as me and would get lucky but still everyone spends atleast 20-30k crowns per set to get the desired lines and stats. And thats just 1 set, I still have my commando/Bazooka set from back in the days, on which again I would have spent 10-15k crowns atleast to get the best lines possible, Then I also have my high EDST set which I used to play with but with the recent D boosts and butchering of EDST now all the crowns invested in it (again atleast 15-20k) are just sitting idle collecing dust in my inventory... And what is to say a mortar nerf isnt incoming soon which would make my current set a waste as well, which would be another 10-15k crowns I will never get back and would be expected to build a totally different set asking for another 15-20k crowns.
Bottom line is museum is a forever evolving and forever crown-demanding building, and with the current rate of crown accumulation, no new player can think of staying F2P and have a relevant museum. Thats simply not happening..
And its not even the biggest crown drain because Council building exists, on my D account I have been meaning to get Epic Miyamoto for more than an year at this point and I have spent again 20-30k+ crowns easily on that account in council rerolls and still forced to use a Blue counselor.
My point is earlier you used to have 8 daily ads and no one really complained because everyday we were guranteed some crowns for the ads we watched and you gained a lot of ad revenue, you win I win everyone wins! but you decided to downsize the ads to only 4 per day and your "justification" was it was a QOL feature but you removed crowns from weekday ads, which we were still fine with because on weekends we were still getting some crowns (albeit it went down from 360ish to 300ish), but the recent changes were truthfully absolutely shameless F-you to the F2P playerbase and you tried to justify it by saying it was for the benefit of the players? Let me be the one to say it, I havent given a single flying fuck about the daily ads since the removal of crowns and I know many F2P players who would agree, so lets be real here; all you did was shoot yourself in the foot, was it fun? How about we forget about everything and go back to how it used to be when everyone used to be happy and content. In your AMA you said "making sure rewards on offer are meaningful" yet you continue to keep them as garbage they they can stay.
The divide between spenders and non-spenders on this game is already quite evident with broken TTs, extra buildings and hangers being available for crowns in shop and VIP store, theres no need to further increase that divide by making such essential parts of the game (museum and council) to also be so hard to craft for, newcomers, F2Ps and low spenders.
I am not someone who just likes to yell nonstop, so I also have a few suggestions regarding this situation:
1) Bring back crowns for ads on weekend ads. Yes they were less than what they used to be back in the 8 ad days but, still they were something and even a steady revenue of 300 crowns per week accumulates over time and its infinitely-infinitely better than the current rate of 180-200 per MONTH.
OR
2) Alternatively the reroll resource for museum and council can be switched to something accessible and possibly farmable, say 100 ruby per line for WW artifacts and 200k oil (for auto age and progressively gets lower for earlier ages) per line for Main Hall artifact. This kills 2 birds with 1 stone, a) it provides rubies a much better use than their current utility and b) incentivizes people to war or Raid in order to enhance their museums.
tldr: Crown accumulation rate is absoluely pathetic after the removal of ad for crowns so either bring it back or change museum/council rerolls resource to something which has a better accumulation rate as those buildings are forever evolving and thus need a constant stream of rerolls/crowns to stay relevant with the seasons and changing metas.
As always to the community: If you agree with whats said; raise your voice, like comment share! show them how bad the current crown generation rate is and that it needs a big change! And if theres anything I have missed or am wrong about the comment section is yours
Happy Playing <3
