Salt an Titanium - simple math.

[Pinkleet]

I agree, but paying 3k for rainbow snow is not really an option for a lowbie And you need quite few books to train Lucky in artifact search

[Plumz]

Salt and titanium ore are equal price with granite. Canons are going between 19-25k coins for 1k (to train 100 canoneers). God forbid you will lose some on a failed block... you are screwed. I just talked with 5 my guildies lev 27-32. They look at TO prices as a sci-fi pages. For them those prices are like from the moon or mars...

Old players are bored (nothing new to do) and disappointed and new players are finding this game incredibly hard to progress in levels. Anyone with the right brain realizes it will take them not months but years to reach lev 50 and create a stable economy. Sorry, BB. Your game is heading in a sad direction. I am afraid not even events will be enough to stop people from leaving.

If pvp was an attempt to give people something to do and create a sink hole to drop resources - it definitely failed. 72 people in my guild only few even tried pvp and now only 2 actually do it.. once a week or so. Your assumption that people will do pvp for the crappy rewards failed. You created economically influenced game. Are you surprised than nobody wants to waste hard earned resources for nothing?

Anyway, I can sum it up fast. More carrot, less stick. Your created balance is way off and people are leaving. Start fixing the reasons fast. How hard is to improve pvp rewards? Add something that can only be obtained through pvp and useful? How hard is to increase the drops in adventures for resources that are needed like titanium or salt? You know that people are leaving, logging less and loosing interest in this game. And I am sure you r gem sales are not as good as you would like them to be (no need of a crystal ball for that).

The fun thing is... it is nothing new. Testers warned you about the consequences of your changes... And now this is life.

[Fyrione]

I completely agree plumz. they were told this from the beginning. they claimed they were going to adjust everything to offset the nerfing of the weapons, and so all they did was boost the weapon making buildings for a couple weeks, which made some of us have to shut them down because it skewed up our other resources so bad we couldn't keep up (having to run ALL iron mines level 4 x3 buffed too expensive and ran out too fast to be able to keep up with)...they didn't think this through in the long run and the amounts that are dropped and the percentages that are dropped need to be reconfigured.
you know their gem sales aren't going well, they've had more gem sales since the beginning of this year then they did all last year, i think. ridiculous!
I hope they come to their senses soon, cuz this is getting tough trying tohelp out my lower level guildies, or my higher levels who screw up a block or something and need resources that are so expensive!

[Fyrione]

think this needs to be kept fresh. BB needs to see this!

[Pinkleet]

Yep. Kanons are reaching 30-35k atm for 1000 (that's 100 troops trained). And salt is already trading higher than granite.

[Bosola]

seriously , x2 buffs ?

[Snacknado]

lol, right? you are 100% losing gc value running any expert building with x2 buff- better off selling/trading raw mats in TO for the end product 100% of the time
If you cannot afford x4 buffs to put on cannon chain you probably should not have a cannon chain and at lvl5 only, nothing less

[Snacknado]

even x3 buffs on cannon chains are pretty pointless nowadays (on Zeus anyways)

[grafxfx]

Absolutely agree with Snacknado, if you don't have 4x buffs forget producing these weapons and trade for them instead. In theory you should only lose them if you make a mistake in an attack. Yes the drops are limited but with 4x buffs its very easy to cover your losses.

[Yphanh2002]

While I agree you should x4 buff with those expensive building such as canon or DS, You forget ONE main thing this topic try to prove. The game is going to direction that IMPOSSIBLE for new players ( aka 20,30,40 level players). We ( old players) can maintenance those building with x4 buff all day long and yes everyone know that you should x4 buff those building to get the most of out it BUT please tell me how can new players have enough x4 buffs . It already hard enough to just build the chain building itself which require huge amount of granite, titan,... Sorry but I don't think people are willing to spend money (aka buy gem) for a game that it require them like a year or insane among of gem to be able do some epic adventures / level up to 45+ ,.... ( basically to somewhat enjoy end game)