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Hello Georgia! I believe very few of you are familiar with me, so to begin with, I am(as you can guess from my nickname) from Ukraine, I'm in this game since the time dinosaurs walked the Earth strength was measured by decimal fractions and each country had it's own currency. Being invited by Resest XIX I joined your community and hope I would be at least a bit helpful.

For a nice start, I present you a "guide" I made recently for my Ukrainian colleagues in English version. If somebody is interested - I would appreciate having it translated to Georgian.



Devil out of the Box - the non-master card players' nightmare. Yes guys, today we are talking about that stuff you've seen multiple times in that annoying ads on your sidebar. Packs, kits and so on.

If you are interested in understanding why they, the administration, are doing it to us, you can read this small passage, but in case you not - just scroll down a bit.

I am not sure that everybody of you knows(your community is quite young), but there exists a so called "Black market". Players are selling each other weapons and food by contacting directly via "donate" function, thus bypassing tax charges and licence limitations. But apart from that there established an "illegal business", when players are purchasing gold for RL money from other players at much more attractive rates than administration offers: f.i. for 100 Eur you can purchase 450 gold during promotions, while on black market for 100 Eur you will get more than 2000 gold, but with risk of being cheated or getting a punishment from administration. But still that works, as even with efforts admins put to stop this illegal activity it is simply impossible to get rid completely of this trend.

So how they could cover the losses? Obvious! Just introduce features, that could be obtained only by direct money payments, so players would have no other choice than buy these products, otherwise risking to be outmached by their non-contributing rivals. To make it even more tempting they wrapped those features with a nice packaging. added small extra bonuses and gave it a catchy name, and voila! - money flow is steady again.

If you reasonably consider that spending your RL money for that, sorry, crap, is incredibly stupid - you can ask somebody to buy it for you, offering CC. I would write approximate price of each product, but you must understand these values can vary depending on gold/CC exchange rates, pack popularity and impudence of seller🙂 Note that not all of them are constantly available, as well as some of them might be issued only for certain events.

I have listed the packages from best(to my opinion) to worst and most useless. So... Kick the tires 'n' light the fires!



All I can say - it's a MUST HAVE for any active fighter. The headliner here is the +20 bonus to energy recovery - meaning you are replenishing the energy 3x times faster at the beginning of a new week than a normal player. As you can guess - 3x more HP - 3x more damage. Also an energy centre is proving useful by adding +200 to your HP capacity.
The ultimate testimony of it's extreme popularity is the fact that administration keeps reducing amount of gold included into this pack - few months ago it was 30 instead of 15.

Pack traders will want at least 30'000 CC for this package.



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Blitzkriegpack

Contents:
25 Gold;
15 Double energy bars;
10 mini-bombs
2 Вing bombs
15 of 50% boosters for 2h;
1 energy centre for 30 days, +2000 hp;
15 of 5х accelerators

As scary as it's name, the Blitzkriegpack has created quite a stir after being issued. And no wonders - +2000 energy center was making it maybe the most tidebraking offer ever existed. Sumed up with energy center from Spring Rush it gave players 4000+4000 energy capacity and 5x damage accelerators allowed to unleash that power just in few seconds before the end of the round, thus in fact GIVING A 80% GUARANTEE OF A BATTLE HERO MEDAL IN D4.

But there was one tricky detail - it is totally useless without Power Pack, as it would take ages to restore those amount of energy without +20 bonus. Just check out:

Assuming 2650+2650 HP (650 standard + 2000 BP)

No PowerPack - estimated time to replenish HP

Basic +10 recovery - 2.2 days (!)
500 PP in weekly challenge - +20 recovery - 1.10 days
5000 PP (+30 recovery) - 0.73 days

With Power Pack:

Basic +30 recovery - 0.73 days
500pp (+40) - 0.55 days
5000pp(+50) - 0.44 days

This f2p nightmare costed 14.9 Euro or over 45000 CC on "black market"




As you know, most players try to stay in lower divisions as long as possible. Having 80k strength in 4 Division is standard, while same amount of power in D1 or D2 would allow the player to single-handedly change the outcome of battle. The only problem is that if he becomes over obsessed with being a hero, eventually he would find himself in big leagues, where his characteristics aren't that much impressive.

Infantry Kit REMOVES THE EXPERIENCE GAIN FROM FIGHTING WITH WEAPONS!, so that D1-2-3 playes can fire at will without fear to be moved further. What's more - +600 energy centre adds considerable potential to your efforts.

But actually there were few funny accidents, when D4 players, who are interested in XP gain, being tempted by +600 E.C., bought the Infantry Kit. You can imagine their dispair🙂 But as far as I heard, administration gave an option of stopping this enhancement.

Price - 14.9 Eur or 45000+ CC from re-sellers




From the first looks they aren't much different, but yet they are.

A War Stash gives you +10% gain to rank points - particularly handy to infantry kit operators, as lower division players rarely have high ranks.
Second feature is less attractive: +10% to gold, purchased from administration, I think it would make some sense only to crazy mastercarders

While a Combat Stash would give you +10% to gold awards from medals, giving extra motivation to medalhunting, while +30% damage bonus to rocket factory seems useless, as far as rockets are tortious.

Players might offer you prices from 25000 cc



As you can observe, Starter/Supply Packs are filled with random meecrob(euphemism for bulls**t). But inside that pile of trash you can find your golden ticket... or rather BRONZE ticket - you receive instantly the BRONZE Loyalty status. Compare the price of this package (4.9 or 9.9 for extended version) to 50 Eur, needed to normally receive that Bronze status... not so bad after all, yeah?
To those who don't know - loyalty status gives you a wide range of advantages - from dedicated customer service to elimination of those stupid captchas.

As far as I heard, you can purchase it only by YOURSELF




Benefits of Assault Pack are questionable - nowadays bombs are not that much efficient as a year or two ago. At least not in such small amounts - more reasonable option is to gather some gold and buy a War Surplus.

+150 Energy centre is good but not impressive. Personally I think it isn't worht its price, but after all, if you have lots of spare money - you can spend it for this pack. Plato needs to have something for his living, right? 🙂



And the lowest position in rating and proud title of BullcrapPack are reserved for TycoonPack

Yeah, players with BMW-scale industries would say that +20% bonus to productivity is cool, but I would remind them that only few people here have enough factories to prove it being efficient. For other 95% players the industry keeps being lossmaking even with 20% bonus.

150 work tickets, which can be obtained by any house in a week look like a split in our faces.

+50 gold transfer limit - yeah, that's kind of good but still not enough for Wall St.-like Monetary Market manipulations. Anyway all the wisea**es rent organisations for these purposes, so this feature is kind of redundant as well.