Thi has bounced around for a reason and this is why its a bad idea ...
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Ok, at the risk of making myself incredibly unpopular (as I usually am!) I'm going to suggest something I mentioned about a year ago in a support ticket to Evony (you can guess at the response I got).
Being unpopular on forums is nothing to be ashamed of itmeans that you dont follow everyone else and have at least some original ideas
I am all for levelling the playing field for honest players. However, I can see (as has already been said) why some people choose to cheat.
Now, the way I see it is this: for some reason, a few servers ago, the medal drop rate from valleys and NPCs dropped dramatically. (I am not the only person who has said they went from being able to get a medal every 10-20 valleys/NPCs to getting nothing for the same amount.) This meant that, instead of being able to earn the medals for your promotions and/or hero persuasions, you had to purchase medal boxes to get any further in the game.
Or just farm the crap out of valleys, i got prinz manually furstin in a month. Also coining alot early on means u will stockpile certain items leading to less coining later on, all that decreasing medal drops did was increase short run profits dramatically, while slightly increasing long term profits.
This escalated into getting the coiners we have now. There is no question in my mind that many of these coiners 'prey' on non-coiners which, in my honest opinion, is incredibly unfair. I think this is why people turned to bots and multiple accounts.
Coiners were always around, we should get that out of the way right away, cutting medal drops didnt create them, a spender will always spend if not on medals then on ports
So, I suggested to Evony that, to make it fair for everyone, have two different types of servers - those exclusively for non-coiners (therefore a truly FREE game) - and another for coiners. The non-coiner server players would still receive an amulet a day and therefore get a spin a day, but there would be no shop on that server so no-one could purchase items. The medal drop rate would be increased to make it interesting, fun and possible to earn promotions.
Okay so this helps evony how? Now you have a bunch of free loaders on a server, and other servers filled with coiners who are going to chase each other off of evony. Whats the fun of coining if u are getting yur ass kicked?
The server for the coiners would basically be as it is now so you could still play for 'free' but purchase as many or as few packages/items as you wanted.
At least this way, the people who do not (for whatever reason) put money into the game could play with like-minded people and know that when they are attacked, at least it's not by someone who has (for want of a better expression) 'purchased' a quick and large army. Rather they have the same chance as everyone else to build up.
Coiners or no coiners prior to the bot age they still had to put in the same amount of time to get these troops. This is why defending is so easy, it negates the advantage of coiners.
I know this would not appeal to everyone and that it would take a bit of planning but it would remove the huge gap between the coiners and non-coiners. No, it wouldn't answer all the problems of cheating, but it would be a step in the right direction.
Ok how is this addressing any of the cheating problems? If this is immplemented u have a bunch of free players who according to you dnt have to fear the coiners meaning that they will now stockpile res and build troops at the same level. What easier way to do this then with a bot? Botting increases. The Spending servers; According to your theroy you will now have a bunch of guys putting piles of money into this game, this means they will want to increase the joy from playing this game since they are pouring mony into it. Again what better way then to have huge armies and no farming. Result? botting and all other frms of cheating increases dramatically. Also there is no gap btwn free to play and coiners. Item farm your ports, farm ur michs and have a decent army and an alliance that can get a hold of u when u are under attack. I for one, being extremally cheap, never spent a dime on this game and accomplished much more then most coiners could. Granted I was around a comp 20 hours a day because of school, but still it can be done.

