Candy Chicanery

Day 4,273, 07:27 • Published in USA USA • by Hcmadman legione astra equitum

Date: 7:30 Day 4273
By: Hcmadman

Over the past few days I have been reviewing some of the changes made to the game during my protracted absence, needless to say I have been facepalming more than a picard meme.



Several items caused me to wonder what the devs were thinking:

The hospital/fortress system was a bit cumbersome, but it needed some tweaks not complete removal.

The ENTIRE BASE INDUSTRY for traveling has been gutted!?!?!

Power ups that give advantages to those attempting takeovers added?!?!

I could go on ad nauseum, but I'm sure most of you already know about this, given the fact that many of you have not taken a dirt nap.



That brings us to these new tokens........ I mean really? could we not have just added the very slight functionality these bring to the table that gold doesn't ..... to the GOLD! Just seems like a good way to throw the economy into a tumult for what exactly?

Oh, a Global Limit, I see. So they wanted a currency they can artificially control, likely spelling death for the gold standard and making laissez faire economies beholden to the new finite standard controlled by the devs.

Cool, got it, but what happens when oh say 2 years down the road they decide to double the amount of tokens in game to bring in more revenue?


The resulting crash of the eEconomy would be staggering, at least as it has been there was no hard limit on the economy, thus the investors never played like that was the case, always keeping in mind that more gold could come into the game. Adding in this potentially false ceiling WILL lead to major shifts in the economic thinking of players, this dangerous trend is nigh unto inevitable.



There are two ways to avoid this addition making tidal waves.

Add the same purchasing abilities and portability to gold, or remove the global cap on tokens.
Anything less than either or both of these solutions and there will be problems.



L8r lizard lips!