View Poll Results: Do you think that Michelangelo's Scripts should be Existant?

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Thread: Michelangelo's Script

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    Thumbs down Michelangelo's Script

    A Suggestion to The Game

    Game Deletion-Item

    Deletion Suggestion:Michelangelo's Script

    Requirement:Removing this Idea from the Game

    Costs (Coins/Resources):50 Evony Cents

    Benefits:Removing this concept from the game would in my opinion be a step in the right direction. The concept of this item in my opinion goes against the grain of the idea "Free Forever". This item forces a player to essentially pay five dollars to upgrade a building to level ten. Now many will say that you can win this on the Wheel of Fortune or as a rare drop from battles however the odds of that occurring are highly unlikely and one script wouldn't suffice to build a players empire. Just to be able to produce catapults one would need 3 scripts, in order to complete all the quests..even more. This would help to level the playing field and not simply pay your way to fame. The way to upgrade a building to level 10 would to pay the resources without the script

    Who would benefit:Players who dislike paying $5 to upgrade a building, Players who are tired of fruitlessly farming for these. In short, about every player in the game.

    Negatives: Those who had won these or purchased them in anyway would have their money stolen from them and would be left with nothing.

    Solution: Refund those players 50 Evony Cents for every script they paid for or won

    Who would be negatively affected:Players who purchased or won scripts

    I am completely open to suggestions,if you have a good idea i will post it up here with full credits to you.
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    Quote Originally Posted by silvadeath View Post
    A Suggestion to The Game

    Game Deletion-Item

    Deletion Suggestion:Michelangelo's Script

    Requirement:Removing this Idea from the Game

    Costs (Coins/Resources):50 Evony Cents

    Benefits:Removing this concept from the game would in my opinion be a step in the right direction. The concept of this item in my opinion goes against the grain of the idea "Free Forever". This item forces a player to essentially pay five dollars to upgrade a building to level ten. Now many will say that you can win this on the Wheel of Fortune or as a rare drop from battles however the odds of that occurring are highly unlikely and one script wouldn't suffice to build a players empire. Just to be able to produce catapults one would need 3 scripts, in order to complete all the quests..even more. This would help to level the playing field and not simply pay your way to fame.

    Who would benefit:Players who dislike paying $5 to upgrade a building, Players who are tired of fruitlessly farming for these. In short, about every player in the game.

    Negatives: Those who had won these or purchased them in anyway would have their money stolen from them and would be left with nothing.

    Solution: Refund those players 50 Evony Cents for every script they paid for or won

    Who would be negatively affected:Players who purchased or won scripts

    I am completely open to suggestions,if you have a good idea i will post it up here with full credits to you.
    three things

    1) I got a mike script from a lvl 1 valley, theyre not a 'rare drop from battles'... (if you battle much, and thats the point of the game)

    2) Evony IS free forever... (Free2Play-Pay2Win)

    3) Now how would you get a building past level 9?
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    You would advance it like normal, pay the resources minus the script.
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    I think it does even the playing field a bit, You cannot FARM the script really so it is blind luck, Buying it is a valid option although I do think that 5 USD for one script is madness and should be reduced by a factor of 10. The drop rate should be clarified and made more reasonable (15% to 20%). I played for almost 2 months, have 9 cities and almost 200k prestige and only won 1 script via a drop (at the beginning of the game). I have attacked all manner of valleys, all levels, and up to lv.7 NPC towns too and no result. That is not a 'rare' item, its close to a miracle drop. If all you needed was a few to play the game (like for the academy) then you might forgive that but for even the resource and cottage builds, crazy. There should be some basic exceptions and certainly the resource and cottages should be Script free.
    The wheel of fortune tends to love to jump over those scripts and land on 20000 food or a speaker or some other junk, and I have paid a fair bit of REAL money gambling on it for a script. Never won one.
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    Possibly increasing the drop rate might be a good idea, that would keep players trying to get it but not forcing them to find a needle in a haystack
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    Quote Originally Posted by silvadeath View Post
    Possibly increasing the drop rate might be a good idea, that would keep players trying to get it but not forcing them to find a needle in a haystack
    Disagreed. Unless drop rate is increased to 50-60%. I think valleys and NPCs should 100% drop an item. The items are up to whom it may concern to decide. This would encourage fighting. The mich's script is totally in my opinion, useless. I wouldn't want to use pure dumb luck 2 get one or fight and get casualties to get one. Nor would I want to spend money cause 5 USD over here is about $6-7 here. Anyway 5 USD is too much.

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    I think the script is actually one of the best designed items in the game. I don't believe everyone should be treated equally necessarily. I've recently picked up two scripts, one from a spin, and one from a battle. Those were the most meaningful items I've picked up in weeks, so it meant a lot when I got them. I think leaving the option for people to pay for them if they don't want to wait for them through other means is fine, and I don't think the price is out of line. They are not a "necessary" item in the game, but I think level 10 buildings that are rarer is a good addition to the game.

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    Quote Originally Posted by St. Clair View Post
    I think the script is actually one of the best designed items in the game. I don't believe everyone should be treated equally necessarily. I've recently picked up two scripts, one from a spin, and one from a battle. Those were the most meaningful items I've picked up in weeks, so it meant a lot when I got them. I think leaving the option for people to pay for them if they don't want to wait for them through other means is fine, and I don't think the price is out of line. They are not a "necessary" item in the game, but I think level 10 buildings that are rarer is a good addition to the game.
    Nice Comment & Why should UMGE remove the Scripts just because you cant seem to get any? there is plenty to go around it just takes some time.

    you can get Via:
    Plundering
    Valleys
    Buying
    Ingame Prize
    Amulet
    And Possibly defending your city

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    i won one then it vanished along with 500 archers during server maintenance reported it as a bug and heard nothing

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    I would like to see them go and I definitely think that at the bare minimum it should be made so that scripts are not needed for all buildings (cottages and resource buildings in particular should be exempt). As it is you would need 74 ultra-rare scripts to fully upgrade a single city.

    As for the question of what to do for the people who have already bought them, one idea would be to give the scripts some useful alternative ability such as instantly upgrading a building to level 10. That way it's still worth getting the scripts, but you can still get everything they give you by other means, it just costs more.

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