Medal drop rates in every server are the same I think.
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Medal drop rates in every server are the same I think.
Um, no. Older servers have higher drop rates for Cross, Rose, Lion and Honor medals. Newer servers have drastically lower drop rates for those four medals. I have personally seen the difference which is drastic. On server 3, honor medals drop easily while on 25 they are not as easy to obtain. On server 84 I have yet to see a medal drop recently.
I've probably attacked NPC 4s and 5s over 100 times in the past several weeks. No mdeals from those.
During that time, I've probably attacked 30 8,9,10 valleys and got 2 lame medals.
I've been sitting at 4 rose medals forever. I'm getting pretty bored with logging in, doing a few attacks, then losing interest and logging out.
Thinking about using a bot and risking get caught. It's either
1) Be bored and ultimately stop playing
2) Get booted for using a bot
3) Continue enjoying the game if the bot farms me the medal I need
One of these outcomes might lead to me paying some money for this game.
Seriously, its a game that requires time. The medals should be earned by a period of time whether its millions of attacks or not. If your in the military, would you get medals and ranks jsut from 1 certain mission. No, you earn them through years of being in the military(not saying it takes yrs to get medals here). It took me awhile to get some medals and ranks but i never complained, you can still be string ad build up army wise, which, is the only thing that truly matter in this game =)
Cheers
Drop rates are set based on a formula and that formula considers the amount of enemy soldiers you kill and the value they have. So cross, rose and lion become harder because a level 3 valley only has a small number of soldiers in it and no archers or cavalry. They dont come untill research 4 and 5 and for NPC, that means Lv. 4 and 5 valleys. I may be wrong on this but I think the original design let a level, say 8 valley drop 3 or 4 rose instead of its designated medal group and people were never getting the higher medals and getting rose in the thousands. So they moved it to the new way. Now instead of rose in the thousands we get none.
Buy them? As if. Sit on your couch, watch TV. Every 45 minutes to an hr, flip a coin. Do that all day. Welcome to Evony. Are they reinforced? No or yes. Flip a coin. Then there is the other 80% of the PvP. Mashing cities in to the ground after players have quit. They never know, they dont care. Soon the loy is 0 and you dont do it any more. Pay? Pay for what? Your own extermination, driven by 3 weeks to end game, elimination PvP? I won 50 cents from the Evony Queen thing. By the time they put it on my account, I had moved through 3 other servers. Its a dead end game.
Reasonable cases have been made in the past but get ignored or threads get merged with other less reasonable threads and then get ignored.
Just to reiterate a few points, having the same medal drop rate for all servers would:
1. Tidy up forum posts about how to get medals and get rid of cross server confusion.
2. Would encourage players to keep playing, rather than quit in frustration.
3. Would encourage players to recommend the game to their friends as a good game.
4. Offer a fairly basic reward for effort system, as it was on the older servers. (as most games have)
5. Actually live up to the implicit promise of "Free Forever".
With all due respect, I suggest that someone take the X-box away from the developers and make them do some actual work.
The ides is basic. They have taken the fun out of the game in order to cash grab from us once again... when I started playing many months ago now.. this was a great fun FREE game. It has turned into a stressful, nightmarish waste of time and energy just trying to either log on or attack hoping to get a medal. I couldn't get online for days, lost almost 75% of my entire army. WoW. Now this is fun wanting to go back and face that again, all the while hitting valleys with my pathetic army
The disappointment has set it, rather than praise the game is getting bashed online. It deserves it. So yes Devs and Dev peons. We are mad, we are disappointed and some of us have had enough. I will be logging on (if I ever can) long enough to say goodbye to me friends and get my butt out of this game. I have spent too much money on NO results. Going back to WoW... pay, play, have fun.