Remove Gem Pit Limit

[Kinson001]

Before you start yelling at me, please read everything..

Instead of increasing the limit of gem pits, it might prove to be more prudent that the gem pit limit prob be lowered from 10 down to 5. BUT, once a year, push the reset button on the amount people have purchased. So if you buy 5, you have to wait a year to buy more.
This would be better for BB in the long run, other then always increasing the limit by 5. (I think the limit was originally 3, increased to 10). If they increased the limit to 15, and 1-2 years later, increased it to 20, etc etc. Say when the limit is 15, a newer player buys some gems pits, stockpiles the gems, gets more gem pits, etc etc..

Lets break it down. Spend $100 to get 24,000 (normal price, not a happy hour special). Spend 20k gems for 1 gem pit. Gem Pit gives you 40k gems over 1 year (plus walking time to/from storehouse/mayor house). So you get 20k gems every 6 months. 6 months go by, the person buys another gem pit, etc..

40,000 gems divided by 365 days = 109.589 gems a day (not factoring in walking time). If someone waiting for a x3 happy hour special, and spend $100 to get 72k gems. That could get 3 gem pits with 12k gems left over. That would be 328.767 gems a day. 24.3 days until they got 8k more gems, to go with the 12k gems left over, to get the 20k gems to buy a 4th gem pit. 438.356 gems a day with 4 pits. 3,068.493 gems a week. 6.517 weeks until they could buy a 5th gem pit. 547.945 gems a day with 5 pits = 36.5 days to get a 6th gem pit .. Total time elapsed to get 6 gem pits 106.3 days (little more then 3 months). So in 3 months, you have 6 gem pits, and can get more and more really fast, and the first 3 purchased still have about 30k gems left in the pit.
So you can see how not having a limit at all can get out of hand really quickly, for someone who waiting for the right time, and only spend $100. The person, if they were careful, wouldn't have to spend another cent on the game and could pretty much buy anything from the shop.

But, if you limited it to 5 gem pits a year, having a cost of 100k gems with a payout of 200k gems a year, one could save 100k gems and spend 100k gems every year, with the purchase of the original gem pits. A good investment if someone is a long time player. And there are a lot of people that will spend a lot of their gems as soon as they can (or splurging at holiday events).

So in conclusion, I disagree with the suggestion to increase the cap or removing of the cap for gem pits.

[Wardog-]

you are not really being logical - are you? ;-)