CaptainRedBeard wrote:
What happens to those that have achieved middle satus and have to get 20,000 or more to buy upgrades, only to find all the time they've put in collecting gold is taken before thier next set of moves, putting them also back to square one. I can see how this can become very annoying, unless they paid for extra moves to guarantee exchanging thier gold for upgrades, Surely this defeats the object of a free game especially as some people have probably got money to burn to gaurantee they become top rankers!
I think this is a harder position than the newbies. For instance, say I'm about 40k in gold (I'm not, don't bother.) with no cheap upgrades left. I get hit about 20X per night, so even with a zero fame, I lose about 8k, which is about what I pick up in a day.
But that really
is the point of a free/pay game. For those who don't want to take a chance that they will lose everything to attacks, it's important to invest a few bucks to buy those extra moves that you need to put you over the top for upgrades. The game can be fun as a free game, but you may get stuck at some point. And let's face it: the admins can only pay out what they take in. So they have to maintain some way of generating revenue for the game, even if that means that some people will never be able to upgrade beyond a certain point.
Mike