Economic balance

[Toast]

Hi,

first off: love the game.
Currently in Medieval Age, rank 54 with 1028 medals and counting.
Been playing for several weeks now and only got this far.

My gripe with the game is the costs involved with upgrades and comparatively how little income I am generating from my maxed farms, roads and caravans in this age.
It takes me almost full time every day (I attempt to stay logged on during the day) for 2 days or more and many attacks in this period to build up about 500k in gold.
Typically, any battle I do gets me between 10 and 20k in gold and food.

given that I need well over 1 million gold to go to the next age (and that's me not even having maxed all my research and buildings in THIS age), I am a bit disheartened about this.
I love the game, but it seems that I can't really progress beyond to the next level or even upgrade some of my existing buildings without spending crowns. I understand that this perhaps is the model that you are aiming for, however it is becoming more and more offputting.

In my mind, a fix for this would be to increase the resource rates for your caravans, roads and farms. I would also tweak some of the upgrades to cost less.
This should in turn increase the available loot from players when you attack them (hopefully), making this a more worthwhile activity too.

I'd like to hear from the company to hear their perspective of this and see if there are any plans to this effect in the foreseeable future.

Thank you.

 

[firedancer]

Playing for 8 weeks. Currently Level 68, Gunpowder Age. Was 1100 medals previously but now dropped them. Bought the Starter Pack. Prior to moving to Gunpowder, I had maxed-out everything except for clearing forests and caravans/farms.

Everything is in the millions at Gunpowder Age. Income per raid is from low 30K, average 60-70K, to high >100K (very rare). Income from raiding can be around 3 to 4 million a day.

This is certainly not a farming game where players can login casually to press on the collectors. Raiding is the most viable option if not buying Crowns.

 

[Whatwhat]

Drop medals and farm. If you getting less than 100k combined from a raid your wasting your time.

 

[woolybugger]

That's been my experience as well, though only Medieval lvl 44.
I need to play over 2hrs/day to get the gold for my big upgrades (eg. castle 850k)
My caravans and roads just don't generate enough income.

At this pace, it's either I forfeit my life or I forfeit the game.

 

[firedancer]

At this pace, it's either I forfeit my life or I forfeit the game.

These sort of games are designed to suck the life-force out of its players.

 

[Link5549]

If you are relying on caravans and farms for your main income you mine as well just stop now. When upgrades cost millions those barely put a dent in that

 

[Tekkaman Blade]

Yeah, I forfeit my life currently and will be in gunpower in 2 days, might forfeit this game like CoC someday if I get bullied too much by top players. Might as well keep forfeiting my life by looking for another game......

 

[firedancer]

This is the digital age's "Money or Life?" situation.

 

[Eagle]

If you're combined loot is below 150k/raid, you're doing something wrong. Drop your medals for better loot or keep hitting next until you find a good base

 

[Unsavory]

Welcome to game design. Population you.

Hi,

first off: love the game.
Currently in Medieval Age, rank 54 with 1028 medals and counting.
Been playing for several weeks now and only got this far.

My gripe with the game is the costs involved with upgrades and comparatively how little income I am generating from my maxed farms, roads and caravans in this age.
It takes me almost full time every day (I attempt to stay logged on during the day) for 2 days or more and many attacks in this period to build up about 500k in gold.
Typically, any battle I do gets me between 10 and 20k in gold and food.

given that I need well over 1 million gold to go to the next age (and that's me not even having maxed all my research and buildings in THIS age), I am a bit disheartened about this.
I love the game, but it seems that I can't really progress beyond to the next level or even upgrade some of my existing buildings without spending crowns. I understand that this perhaps is the model that you are aiming for, however it is becoming more and more offputting.

In my mind, a fix for this would be to increase the resource rates for your caravans, roads and farms. I would also tweak some of the upgrades to cost less.
This should in turn increase the available loot from players when you attack them (hopefully), making this a more worthwhile activity too.

I'd like to hear from the company to hear their perspective of this and see if there are any plans to this effect in the foreseeable future.

Thank you.

 

[Redgar]

I've posted some stats in another topic on collecting 3M gold in one session. It's not that bad with farming even in early GP on 1000 medals range. It was 100K gold in average having 25 battles during 5 hours. I don't think I'm going to have another session like this for the next 2-3 weeks, tho.

 

[firedancer]

5h for 3M? That's like 3 walls