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Digital Age is finally here.

LordStark263AC

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November 2019. Level requirement is 285. I think that's too steep. 270-275 would've been just right. 20191014_151649.jpg
 

sponge

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So who are digital age suppose to attack in pvp? There are about 50k of space and cold war age players combined, and most are active players, that means lots of players online. It's just not enough, they really need to lower entry level to cold war age.
 
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Bootney Lee Fonsworth

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Why? $$$$. The usual suspects will pay to max everything in a few hours, like always. It'll look nice on the end of year financials. Who cares what it does to the game's overall balance? BHG/Nexon don't. Considering how weak the last few ages have been creatively it's just going to be two more levels of upgrades on some things that'll take 17-18 days each. The brand spanking new 380s will get even more mileage out of level 10 sandbags. Sunrise, sunset.
 

SomeRandomPlayer

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They are making it impossible for earlier ages to catch up despite how dedicated they/we are. Not even all the same folks that went SA right away are able to go DA in a reasonable time frame. For many, DA will never be possible. This is unfortunate. At least give us a little hope! ;-)

Please reduce upgrade times in earlier ages; even if it's temporary for a month or whatever.

Then again, many alliances are 100% SA today and that's boring so perhaps this is a good thing; I don't know; having 100% DA alliances sounds boring.

In any case, please watch upgrade/resource cheating during the DA release... remember all the pink unicorn alliances full of new SA's upon SA's release? Please watch out for this.
 
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Parmenion

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My main account will still be CWA so will be 2 ages behind once DA is released. I'm OK with it but it illustrates that without spending lots of money it's not possible to keep up with the ages anymore (when wanting to max out per age). Clash of Clans scale back upgrade times in previous ages when a new age is released and I feel the same needs to be done with this game.
 

Bootney Lee Fonsworth

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I quit for a few months and came back in late April as a 263. Went ahead and crowned my way to Space Age to take advantage of SoA. I've maxed the offense I use, the silo, rocket arsenal, and the infrastructure to get me all of those things. After all that I'm sitting at 272. To be fair, I've spent the last several months whittling away at uni. Even if I hadn't I doubt I'd even be at 285 with 16.5 day upgrade cycles.

This is pretty insane, shortsighted and money grubbing to me but I've also never bought an event pass or legendary artifact either. Seems pretty clear, despite $200 spent and 4 years of mostly daily playing, interspersed with some lengthy breaks, that the game has passed me by and light spenders are not the target audience. C'est la vie. I can't really complain about the hours spent to dollar ratio. Been a mostly fun ride. But it's no longer worth the time or money to attempt to keep up with the top players or Nexon's heavy handed attempts to extract every last dollar out of the playerbase. Good luck and happy gaming to those who feel differently. Looking forward to reading how it all works out eventually.
 

LordStark263AC

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Really? I'm 263 and it looks like I have a loooong wait before I can be Digital Age. What a bummer.
 

Bootney Lee Fonsworth

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Seems like a rush event would actually offer rushes on more than the town center though. 40% discount is swell and all but one upgrade in any of the four highest ages take longer than the discount windows. Couple those with the level thresholds and it just seems like a token gesture to keep too many folks from questioning their motivations. Who knows? Perhaps there will be some super speedup event to coincide with this? Or even better, a realization that everything takes too long past industrial age and some adjustments in that regard? We're in unfamiliar territory here, would be nice if the devs didn't stick to their usual m.o.. Guess we'll see.
 

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In November they will pull the plug the game is barley playable as it is drop a major update on it it's done ...plus all the money they will lose by not fixing the archive and resources hacks and workers hack watch the hackathon on day one
 

Bootney Lee Fonsworth

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I think that depends on how well DA does. If it's a windfall I'd expect to see Information or Modern Age by June at the latest. Considering all they're doing is adding 12-24 hours to upgrade times, giving us busy work to upgrade the refinery by 15,000 oil, upgrading graphics, and adding a description to the new troop upgrades it can't be that hard to do. Maybe it'll take slightly longer if they plan on having four more wonders, only two of which will be remotely useful. But the relatively barren and piecemeal way every age since atomic has been doesn't inspire much confidence.

Congratulations, you hit level 285! So, without the aid of crowns or rush events, you'll be able to get your first Digital Age troops in........51 days! 17 for tc, 17 for factory upgrade, 17 for troop upgrade. Whoops! You'll probably have to spend two weeks upgrading your refinery for a slight upgrade, before you can tackle that factory and those troops! Surely those mk.10 heavy tanks and (insert adjective) rpg's will be worth the two month wait!
 

Cannibals

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Yeah I’m just going by average XP gain per month. I gained 43k last month, and it’s 450k to level 285.
 
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