Something to think about.. [illidan] [EDIT: 14:19]
Radvila Juodasis
EDIT 14:19
This is the first ever Aircraft battle we witnessed.
Please take a look at the top 10 stats from both sides. I dare you to find a lower division player.
Again, even in this module, D4 players will prevail. Lower Division players don't fight because they don't want to get experience normally (and because at least I personally, don't understand how it works), thus they will be left behind in rank and everything else in the Aircraft module.
Prices of the Airplanes Q1 weapons went from 80cc to 200cc and increasing as we speak. How is a new player supposed to be able to afford such weapons, and thus advance or at least stay in pace with the rest of the players? Even I can't do that.
R.I.P. Lower Divsions & new players?
Good game, well played.
Good afternoon eRepublikans,
I hope I will be writing this article not only for myself, but on behalf of all D2 players, and/or all lower division players at least.
It is in times like these when we need to show our attitude, decisiveness, and will.
It all started a few months ago, as in a Military Unit competition I think (in MU objective) where you could fight in other division after destroying an objective.
After that, the “Switch Division” was introduced in EVERY event afterwards, they even dedicated a special tank skin to it, again, which people could get it at the 40.000 Prestige Points mark, and as they say on their Facebook profile, only 385 people got it (I did get it too).
Now, unlike the replies they give when you send a ticket that “many people enjoyed this temporary feature” – THEY DID NOT.
It may have skipped your notice Admins, but lower divisions were ALL against that change. Only D4 liked it, because they could come into our divisions and mess with us.
All lower divisions players were against it and had to fight for their BH with a Legend X rank from D4. Seems legit.
30 days from the Manticore event still haven’t passed, but here we are, they presented a new pack which gives the option to change divisions, only for 14.9 Euros.
I remember, initially we were joking about it, that they will make it pay-to-do-anything in this game, but then this happened.
This game is now about several people with 150k+ strength, tons of money on their Visa/Mastercard, now with possibility to play in all divisions between themselves. The rest of us are irrelevant.
This is a picture taken yesterday when fighting against Bulgaria in Ruse.
F@nis is a D4 older player, well known spender in the game, but other than that, he is also a Legend XI Military Rank of his country, with almost 160k strength (158,596.84 to be precise)
Now, on the picture shown above, ladies and gentlemen, that is his hit in 2nd Division. 8 millions like a joke. 1 kill 1 BH.
For a mere comparison I will use my account’s attributes. I have 127k strength ( 127,506.20) which is 30k strength less than F@nis, and I have Military Rank Titan** , which is about 12-13 ranks lower than him? I won’t even bother to calculate.
With x5 accelerator, I make about 3 million dmg with 1 kill. F@nis makes 8 million.
Tell me dear Admins, where is the “damage cap” on this ridiculous pack?
How should I, or better yet, WHY WOULD I compete with such D4?
Besides, since you already introduce an Aircraft division / battle in which ALL players would take part, why do you ruin the other battles too? What is the purpose of this ridiculous pack? Better remove divisions and we all fight in 1 division. No Aircraft, No packs, no nothing. Because at this point, I don’t really see a difference.
This change is a direct slap in the face for me, and for all lower divisions players, because you are taking away just like that, years of patience and years of hard work and years of buying packs. We had to take care not to gain unnecessary experience, while D4 was exploiting it (Free Training, free packs, free bars, gold, bombs with every level up) and most important of all, more damage.
I don’t want any of that. There is no absolute way that I could EVER catch up to that.
This month I already received Blitz pack and Maverick Pack as a gift for my birthday, so I will have to buy Infantry Kit and Power Pack too, so the others are not in vain. BUT REGARDLESS of the fact if you fix the damage cap for people who come in lower divisions or not,
IF BY THE TIME NEXT PACKS COME, THIS RIDICULOUS “TEST” PACK (MAVERICK PACK) IS NOT REMOVED, YOU CAN REMOVE ME FROM YOUR SHOPPER’S LIST AS WELL.
That basically means, I will go 2-click, and I will have to give you a VERY BIG THANK YOU for finally giving me a reason to take a break from this game.
Think about it.
Disappointed citizen, fighter, customer
Signed, illidan.
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Something to think about.. [illidan]
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disagree, of course
d4 ppl in lover div have same hit like you, when i come in d2 i dont have my str i take your str ... sadly 😛
that F@nis hit is only in eGreece because of legends bonus and with dabx5, in div4 his hit would be +10m with dabx5 😉 ... you can cry but that is a fact, he invest in his hit, a and you "invest" in farming gold
tanks from lower div are much more stronger and richer then 90% of d4 ppl, this 90% ppl from d4 now will have better chance to earn something in d4 division and you will also earn but much less then before ... but still much more than 90% d4 ppl 😉
So basically you are saying that only people who spend RL money should play the game???
And those who cannot afford the packs should quit?
The airplane changes were announced for months.
The Maverick pack was not.
People didnt have time to adjust their strategy
For Example
Macedonia started campaign against Argentina based on the Divisions system.
We spend a small fortune and we won.
And now all of sudden that is all for nothing
If we knew about the pack we would have not attack
People would have spare their funds for something else.
Whole MU based their strategy for a year on this system and now it's all for nothing
comment, well said! i feel the same for this joke of pack :/
Also, POLE o/
Voted hard.. this change is not good for all players from lower divisions. if this continues this will be my last month i play this game with packs
You are right
I am a d4 player but i too think its ridiculous
O7
gdoc or they will remove this article too o7
Funny thing is, they always say "we have accepted YOUR feedback" and then when someone gives an opinion they just delete the article or comment.
Admins listen only those players who pay them. It's pure pay2win game right now. Once it was STRATEGY game.
vote!
o7
true o7
Not much to add there...
Well done admins more $£€ for you. o/
Man, you care too much xD
Plato does not see the population. There's only one number he cares about, and that's the income. No matter how many people plays, just how many people pays.
(made some grammatical mistakes, but it's still understandable I think)
less people = less income
Not necessarily. There are still huge amount of players who don't spend money on this sh*t, while F@nis and a Trico (whoever with his acc) and the rest of the customers can still have some fun. Every update is for them. Their money, their game, their rules.
there's no cure for greed, and our insane Plato is heavily addicted to it
vote o7
vote o7
Voted. Shouted. I have over 250 big bombs at the moment and wanted to save them for later on in the game, but because of this pack I won't buy my usual packs (I used to buy all of them except tycoon, which I was planning to start buying because of holding company update) to expand the duration of the bombs. Well done Plato. I hope you will get more profit from D4 than you did from all others combined.
Voted
Endorsed
It's good to see someone still cares
I was once a Silver buyer, long time ago.
Just hope they change their policies and try to earn money by quantity of buyers rather than a few players buying heavily.
o7
BIG VOTE
Voted!
lol, same thing one year ago. No IK, no damage from FYROM. You bought a bunch of acc and you thought that you were god. Stop crying
Same thing last year with you too. Banks stopped your visa cards = greece deleted. 🙂
Your argument is invalid however.. if you have something relevant to add to the content of the article, please do.
If not, please refrain from trolling, insults or something similar.
Thank you.
I insult noone and i am not trolling. One year ago, neither you or your Unit existed. Probably you were plaing in another div or game.
I am old original fighter who used to play guerrilas.
well i am against that pack too but you have almost 130k on d2. how is that fair for other players? i know you tried hard and waited long for that but we only complain when the changes affects us badly and don't care about the rest. why wouldn't you ask for str based divisions for example? because you'd get less bhs that way.
Oh my friend, but I do. I vouch, and I want divisions based by strength or by max hit, or something..
But in order for me to ask that, the current chaos must be brought to order.
This pack is fine.
They take highest hit, fine.
But do they really need to get legend bonus on maxhit when fighting in divison other than their own?
F@nis's hit is capped... It's just that he has a 110% Legend bonus for Greece, so his hit is roughly two times bigger. If he was fighting for any other country, his hit would be normal. His strength and rank are still irrelevant (if he was fighting in Division 4, his hit would be 920 K 😃).
Other than that, I agree with you that this pack is retardedly stupid. It should be removed after these 30 days, as a failed test subject.
yes but as we can see many div4 players bought this pack
i believe that they bought this pack more players than them who buys inf kit
its the revenge of div4 players and i dont think that they remove this pack unfortunately....
Support!
Strong support..great article...also need changes concerning str. We need strength based divisions but not experience level divs. o/
You fail at understanding the game mechanics. Someone from above explained why f@nis hit was so higher than yours.
Anyway, like I said in another artcle, the main thing I see is a small number of D1/D2/D3 visa losing the exclusivity to their playground to another small group of Visas.
To the common player it does not matter who screw with them, be it a d1/d2/d3 visa or a d4 one.
The whole force, rank and division system is a mess.
There are a lot of important things to complain about, things that would let the game grow or the lack of xp inibithor for air battles, but you pick this to make an article? Shame on you.
Does it matter if someone understands the mechanics or not? You are saying the current mechanics with 11 times Legend rank applies, is okay?
Plato could do away with the current force, rank and division system for all I care, and I say that being among the T50 or T60 of the game in strenght.
I just don't see any point in complaining about this point.
There are players from lower divisions winning BHs and competing in D4 too, btw
>d4 players will prevail
No, credit card users will prevail. It's just that most of them are in D4.
they always prevailed. Just that some benefited those payers and actually paid with farmed CC for packs.
You talk about new players, but what about non MasterCard old ones? I have fought without weapons because I can't afford aircraft ones, I leveled up and used bars and I'm 10% of the damage the BH leader has caused, even when we are not 10 minutes of battle yet
vote friend
Voted hard, from div4
Plato never liked the "wait-two-years-don't-play-accumulate-strength" way to play.
This is a way to force the lower divisions tankers to progress to d4 and let the field to other, less stronger, players.
From what I saw, the competition for BH in lower divisions was, until now, a lot lesser agressive than in D4.
In D4, a BH hit 80M-100M in average, sometimes less, sometimes more.
In D2 and D3, is 15M-20M.
And the tankers in D4 are many more.
Can't agree with a full page of BH medals, all from the same player, hitting both sides in 5 different battles. Can't agree also with a small, very restricted club with a handfull of players grabbing all the medals.
I don't think having more tanks in lower divs will help the weaker players.
I congratulate myself for stoping to buy packs and taking a break for things to settle 🙂
we just have to stop buying packs. one or two months on 2click and I think Plato will get the point
we just have to stop buying packs. one or two months on 2click and I think Plato will get the point X2
good point. as for me, i gave no money to pluto till now and i will continue in this directions. best regards