Quote Originally Posted by WARMONGER777 View Post
As I have read the mich scripts, normal teleports, as well as the rest of the items no longer drop. Why is this? Before I was getting a normal teleport once every 50 attacks or so. Why is the drop rate so low for these items? People buy wood/iron and other materials now. Thats where your money is coming mainly from. People who buy those to upgrade heros. People also spend a good deal on advanced teleports to get the hero. People buy these items, advanced teleports for high end players and materials to upgrade hero gear. At least let people get the mich scripts regular teleports. Its not asking that much on an attack of a barbarian 5 or 10. I get nothing to drop on barbarian 5's or 10's anymore. Yet we lose troops to the 10's. 1-5% drop rate would be fine on items such as regular teleports and mich scripts. Its currently at a 0% drop rate on npc 1-10's or maybe 1 in 10,000. Any way this can be adjusted?
Can Evony Team adjust it? Yes, they can adjust anything in the game. However, do they wanted to adjust it, or to adjust in what degree? That is another question.

Quote Originally Posted by Dawnseeker View Post
These items do still drop and repeating false information does not make it so. We recently fixed a bug with the achievements that increased the drop chance of items, so if you had those achievements, you'll see a lower drop rate than you had previously. But the items are still out there and drop at the correct rates.

As Domi indicated in his post, it is obviously not intended for players to win literally hundreds of valuable items in a short period of time.
Dawnseeker, I do like the way that you keep communicate with us openly. But honestly, your replies have seriously discredit yourself.

I believed that canceling the drops as a business decision has nothing wrong, but to giving out false information is inappropriate. I would challenge you to play Evony yourself and tell me if you will agree that the drop should be adjust again or not.

Out of more than 1000 recent winning battles (from the May 24th update to today,) all I got is nothing but gems and medals from lv 1~10 valley / barbarian's cities. Tell me, which side should I believe? Should I believe in you or should I agree with others which you claimed as giving our "false information?"


Quote Originally Posted by neko_lord View Post
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Being overly-restrictive and trying to coerce ("entice") people too heavily often has the opposite effect... Think "telemarketer calling at all hours of the day"...
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I like your telemarketer example.


Quote Originally Posted by MordredOmega View Post
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You guys always talk about "How can we make money if you don't buy" Well, let me put it this way. If I charge 10 dollars for a show, and I get 5 people, I make 50 bucks.... if I charge 5 dollars, and more people come because of the lower price, say 20 come now, I make 100 dollars... simple economics. If you drive everyone away due to overpricing things and making a "free" game, so difficult you really have no choice but to get dominated or pay, then people will leave. However, if you continue to push it where people get their items, more people will play, and get impatient and then buy your items. Which means you make more profit.
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Quote Originally Posted by aser5 View Post
I second that. I've so far payed around 80$ on this game, but no more. Because of the low drop rates there is no point in spending at all, before it gave you a little advantage and you could save time. Now it is pay or you get nothin, then I'd rather go with nothing (you know most ppl won't put up with being tossed around like this and will either stop buying or ultimately leave this game). Btw I think you should skip the Free Forever now.

Edit: you know that 0.0000000000...1=0 right?
Seriously, I already started thinking about leaving this game (after all, this is not the only "free" online game on earth) ... I think I will just hang on for another week or two to see if there is going to be any improvement.