Growing gap between players

[Pinkleet]

Coin and resources are one thing. The gap between players under 50 and the lev 50 vets is just huge. The gap between players who spend cash and those who don't is also growing. Now we have another gap coming: 25 extra levels, new army and new resources. I wonder how will this affect guilds? What are your predictions for returning players? Those 50ies who left a while ago? Will the game get infusion of new and "old" blood?

And for the love of God BB... stop making all adventures as huge maps. We have jobs, families and lives! Toss us few smaller maps to play with on our way to 75 will yah?

[Ceruhe]

Now we have another gap coming: 25 extra levels, new army and new resources.

I don't really see much of a problem here. New troops are for the new adventures only, loot is mostly in regards to the new units only as well, Grout is one thing, Mahagony for Granite Mason another, other than that....meh? So far seems "proven" that building drops will be astronomical low, so that kind of gives even less incentive.

Only thing really we got now...
-First players to do Ali's can sell them resources for 6 cows, 11 sheep, 2 pigs and 500 chicken or something, until them people with less assigned intelligence will get behind the idea of platin being worthless (assuming loottables as we currently know them remain of course) and mahagony being the new granite of sorts...along with grout I guess.
- Star Coins will be a thing that will die out soon, once everyone goes through their stash....personally I barely have any, others have 84k, but that's also not much considering how long it will take to get to 75 and level rewards also got reduced.
- That about sums it up.

If old blood comes back, dunno, and then questionable if they will stay. Don't get me wrong, I'm looking forward to the expansion, but I'm not blinded by the fact it's mostly...well not quite cosmetic, but limited, most everything is for the new content only and there isn't a game changer to be gotten like Major was for FTs.

[CoffeeCat]

How likely is it that the cost to do things at higher levels could reach the tipping point of 'too expensive and time consuming' for the 50+ players?

[Ceruhe]

Hm...seeing how big and high loss they get starting the 3rd Thief...very likely, but again, the loot is pretty much only to make troops (you'll mostly need platin, which you get in high amounts and need fairly less per unit) and your first set mahagony+ some for (personal) fails...the rest can be used to get Granite masons up and running as well as upgrading the new chains I guess, though I'd wager that isn't sooo much of a priority, unsure yet if the bottleneck comes with the troop training or with supplies for them, which can be countered with another building and better buffs.

Other than that, it's Brew/Bread that is needed, which everybody has more than enough of and even cheap to buy, so "too expensive" doesn't even apply, rather than the "It's sooooo big....I need a million pop cap and vacation to do this".

[Ornias]

Keep in mind that the new adventures are all RNG gated as well. You have to find one with the explorers first (no word on drop percentage that I have seen, but if it is like everything else it will be single digits). Then you have to complete that adv and hope the next one drops (again rng), or you have to hope that your explorers find the first one to run again. I am almost willing to bet that a majority of people will be doing the old adv all the way to 75. I expect that BB will take 6 months or so to realize how dumb this is and put the 1st Alibaba in store for frags *cough*VLT*cough*.

[Perwyn]

I think Pinkleet is trying to start an "Occupy BB" movement.

[Troll-Phu]

think it's time to invest in the "Kleenex" company

[Eriond]

think it's time to invest in the "Kleenex" company

nothing to sneeze at, anyway