[All servers] Gold V/s TCN...is going to change...!! (Replied)

superprash

Hi guys, i have been playing BTO since its inception and found the game really awesome..As of now i'm playing on the wallstreet server and seem to be losing interest of late, since most of the props or for that matter upgrades cost a lot of gold..

There are, of course, thosewith rich purses that are on top and i also do understand that the BTO game developers need to recover their costs for building this game..but its quite frustrating when all your hard work yields a few thousand TCN a day and you have to do it all over again the next day..

I dont mind the effort, but the returns on investment (time playing the game v/s the results) have to be linked...
Is there any possibilty for those that work hard to be repaid equally against those with rich purses ...???

Nicola

I understand and feel your pain since I also find it hard to heavily invest like some do. However it is unlikely to change. That gap is there to encourage you to purchase gold. This tactic is the driving force of income for the game. No one would buy gold if there was not a distinct advantage by doing so.

BTO-CS203

Dear players,
       Thank you for your feedback.It is the normal setting in the game,hoping that you can understand us.But we will enhance much more interesting of the game in the near future,thank you for your concern!

Nanashi

superprash,
Your company only yields a few thousand at the beginning because it's still small.  The more you build it up, the more you earn each day.  There are people who earn over 50,000 and 100,000 TCN each day in revenue right now, and that will increase as they get larger.  There are ways to get around using props, but if you get rid of or decrease the effect of Gold, which is the game's source of revenue, there won't BE a game.  Also, those who play longer DO get rewarded for it.  The longer you're on, the more routines you do, which earns you money.  The more times you do a routine, the more it earns you as well.

zeeck

Well, i think what superprash is trying to get to is the insane priceing of everything in gold, and that in fact is cutting the majority of players out of many aspects of the game.
As an example: you can furthe train your emps with TCN or gold, if you use TCN there is a chance the training will fail (seems it fails most the time) with gold its 100% success, this seems fair enough, people who cant or wont buy gold, still have a chance to train their emps but its gonna cost them, on the other hand people who can and will buy gold have an advantage, imo nothing wrong with that.

Now if you want to enlighten your emp's there are still 2 options to do so, one that has an % to fail, another wich ensures success, but both cost GOLD, meaning the player that is not willing or dosnt have the means to buy huge ammounts of gold, is cut off from this part of the game, imo this only makes the game less appealing to the non gold buyer player base.

I think that if you provide all players with the same game experience, meaning that weather you buy gold or not, you can still enjoy ALL aspects of the game, would in fact make the game MUCH better, and would keep a lot of the non gold buyers players still wanting to play. Gold should still be in the game, no doubt, and for those that buy gold, this should prove an great advantage over the people not buying.

Again to use myself as an example, i decided early on in the game, that i would have no problem buying some gold from time to time, and have done so, using this gold has given me an advantage over other players who are not buying gold, but the further into the game i get, the more things i encounter that im not villing to spend gold on,  (like the 500 gold to enlighten an emp from junior to intermediat, with no certainty its gonna be a success).
This has spawned the thought in my mind, do i realy want to continue in this game then. Im buying gold, but still feel like im cut off from certain things in the game, not allowing me the full game experience, and i have reached the conclusion, that instead of buying a little gold from time to time and still feel im left out of some parts of the game, id rather stop buying gold, and in the end probably stop playing the game as its in reality only a part of a game im playing.

Examples of things that work pretty good with both TCN and gold options:
guild advancement: (can be done with TCN, but is much faster if you use gold)
further training: (can be done with TCN, but is faster and ensures success if you use gold)
Store upgrades: (can be done with TCN, but can be done more frequently, and hurried with the use of gold)
And some examples of things that non gold buyers cant do:
enlighten: (only doable if you spend gold, could be done as further training)
city hall: (only doable for gold buyers, voting tickets could have both TCN and GOLD prices, its just a matter of having the TCN price high enough to ensure a clear advantage for the gold user)
Landmark battles: (same as city hall, have both values on bricks and ensure an advantage for gold buyers by setting the price of TCN high enough)**(and if bricks would get two prices, you could simply change the guild upgrade from bricks to pure gold to ensure the advantage of guild upgrade by gold)

To sum up the rant:
Give people the choice of enjoying the complete game without the NEED to buy gold, but provide considerable benefits for the people who buy gold. This migh just get more people buying gold that suits their wallet and enjoy some of the bennefits, because if they see they can still enjoy the full game without buying, they might want a few benefits , where as now, i cant enjoy the full game, because i dont want/cant buy enough gold, i might aswell consider weather its worth my money at all to buy the gold i do, when i cant even enjoy the full game.

BTO-CS203

Dear zeeck,
        Thank you very much for your suggestion and feedback about the game.We have recorded and submited your feedback to our relate department, we will take it serious consideration.
       Thank you for your supporting!

zeeck

To Quote Nanashi

"but if you get rid of or decrease the effect of Gold, which is the game's source of revenue, there won't BE a game."

I agree in this, BUT you can provide people with options to ensure that everyone is getting to enjoy ALL aspects of the game, keeping gold as an mean to ensure faster better and more certain form of advancement.

You could argue, that if people who are not buying gold (or just buying little gold) dont feel they are getting the full game experience, they might quit (and stop buying the gold they do buy) decreasing revenue, and in the end the people that do buy gold would start to feel like the game wasnt worth playing, because there arnt that many playing it making it less of an appeal, and maybe some of them would decide to quit aswell... and then there won't Be a game either