The new silos

[Pinkleet]

I am going to make this simple. After tossing tons of gems and coins to buy enough to support my grain production, after paying even more coin, granite, exo planks to upgrade them... BB wonderfully comes up with the NEW silo...

I understand the company doesn't operate on coins but real money, I understand the gem sales are very much needed so we can actually play the game, I get it. You couldn't just make some "upgrades" toward existing silos to buy for gems? The old silos will be obsolete now and all the hard spend gems are down the hole. You can continue to make gem sales and not making me (and I am sure I am not the only one bitter about it) feeling just... used like a cash cow?

I am happy about the new silos... and same time I feel like a big sucker that you (BB) just flushed for gems. This could be done much better. But hey, I am just the sucker, I get it now.

[theWhiteCane]

How...how are the old silos obsolete exactly? They work just as well as before; you don't have to change your configuration unless you want to; it's an option if you want to conserve space down the road. Not to mention that they'll fill gaps left by the improved silo better than buying yet another improved silo. I've a nice, happy, balanced bread production and I feel no desire or need to rip up anything b/c of these things. If I find I need space...well, then I have an option, which is a good thing.

The only annoyance is the 255 gem differential between production modes -- a lobby effort to drop the original silo price to 700 wouldn't go amiss and would still favor the larger gem sale, though they do seem deaf to reason on that front

[LordB]

Look at it like buying a car... that was all sexy when you first bought it... but 3 years later the new model comes out with new hotness.

Your old car is still working fine, still gets you from point A to B... just not as well as the new model.

Would you really feel like a "sucker" over the fact that the world didn't stand still and your 1980 Pinto isn't still the pinnacle of modern engineering?

[Wujcio]

where is the "new silo" info? test?


nvm...

[Troll-Phu]

test 2k gems but i'm thinking maybe a drop in the new adventures like the "bone church" it says might drop

[D0pey]

Look at it like buying a car... that was all sexy when you first bought it... but 3 years later the new model comes out with new hotness.

Your old car is still working fine, still gets you from point A to B... just not as well as the new model.

Would you really feel like a "sucker" over the fact that the world didn't stand still and your 1980 Pinto isn't still the pinnacle of modern engineering?

I see what you’re trying to say there and there is some truth to it but I think that analogy is a little flawed.

A better analogy would be to buy windows 7 for $100 use it for a year then find out to get service pack 1 costs another $30 and in that service pack is an improved graphical interface or a smarter, faster and more secure ‘free’ anti-virus + firewall software. It’s not a new operating system (I.E Windows 8); it’s the same one just improved a little.

Cars and software are 2 very different things. If they released The Settlers Online 2 and had an improved Silo then yes the car analogy would fit much better. But with software, especially with a persistent online game it’s like everyone is buying/using the same car and a year later after you brought into it the manufacture decides to change what it is everyone is driving. Its not a new car your getting, it’s the same one! Those that have brought manual roll down windows in the past for $30 will need to spend another $20 to have new electric ones. Where by newer players or players that have yet to spend some gems will be able to swoop in and save themselves $30 and get a much better product to boot.

In a persistent online world it’s more like living in a massive house with 5000 other people. Then the owner of the house comes along and lets you buy things from them to get your personal bedroom just how you like it, a HDTV, computer, automatic lighting, water bed and anything else that takes your fancy. You spend $7000 to do it but you get it done. Then shortly afterwards the owner of the house comes along and gives the other residents of the house access to everything you own but new and improved for $2000. Not only making all your stuff redundant but costing you $9000 in total for you to have exactly what everyone else now does whereby they have just spent $2000. Wouldn’t you be a little miffed by that?

[LordB]

In fairness the game is 2-3 year's old its not like you just bought the newest model and the next day it became obsolete. Also the entire you spend 7000... and then someone new gets to spend 2000 is completely wrong, since the new silo is much more expensive. You paid 7000 for a working late model plasma, the new guy came along and paid 21000 for that Ultra HD etc etc.

I honestly can't get my head around why anyone wouldn't be thrilled with the new silo, since depending on licenses it will allow those that want to put in the effort to increase wheat production drastically. Space is so limited things like the Friary & ISH and now the new silo are great!

[Troll-Phu]

i'll hold out for the Improved Out House 3x as many settlers can go poo at once

[Pinkleet]

I have fun reading those... All your logic is sound and solid. Wait till you get your hands on the new silo and realize 1 of them can service 3 farms and how much more room you can get on your island by getting those. 2k gems is not picnic it means from 1 gem pit you only can get 10 of those.

I would rather have some kind of upgrade to the old silos sold in gem shop for 1k gems than doing it this way. And yes your old silos are obsolete. Who is gonna buy them now? When you can get the brand new 3x better one?

It's not the idea, it is very welcome, we all need more space on our islands. It's just making stuff obsolete (that was costly to obtain and improve in the first place) with few lines of code is what makes me feel sad. And used.

[LordB]

Yea Pink don't get me wrong, some sort of trade in system where we could sell our old silos back to the store for say a 75% refund on gems to spend on new silos would really be TOPS on the customer service..... But I wouldn't hold my breath for that.

That said there will still be a huge market for old silos, people who before never bothered with them will possibly decide to buy them and new players will still buy. I expect that their price will stop increasing so drastically which my have the added benefit of putting truehead out of business, but things will be just fine for regular silos.

The market will work like this - Ballers (like myself) will demand the best equipment and in return start selling our old silos from tear down to 'newer' players at a discount to par. It will be a bad ratio for the person needing the latest greatest but they will have the islands to support the swap. The only risk to this version of events is if there aren't 'newer' players willing to 'sell' gems into the system.. at which point yes things will suck for the established players not wanting to spend gems.