There are plenty of facebook groups you can join. Prinz only groups. Easy to reach Priz without spending in Age II. Once you hit Priz simply join a Priz Facebook group. Done deal. You don't need to connect facebook to your Age II account. All you need to do is register it and have no friends on your ingame list, no allies. That's how I do it so nobody can see my cities. But what is more, there IS a way to get 20 ammies per day. If someone who does not want to spend money on the game but also does not want to use facebook to get ammies and thus materials, tough. That is their problem. Like, I am starving to death, I need food. But I won't eat McDonalds.
To get 8 stars you only need about 50 flawless gems per gear. I know because I upgraded most of my gears to 8 stars before I decided to spend $1k on gems. I just hit L1-9 NPC's and got the gems. It was alot of farming and took me 3 months or so frm April-June 2010. But I did it without spending cash. In the same thread you read I also said that I did not spend a dime on this game until after I was Priz and after I uprise and capped HH's from my Suzerain. By the time I started spending money I had 8 stars on all my gears. Getting to 8 stars is EASY. Use auto upgrade tool and use flawless only. You will get to 8 with about 50 gems.
I don't know age I so well so can't comment on that. But in both Age I and Age II the spenders always spend their way to the top. So you cannot say it mostly applies to Age II. In Age I everyone complains about spenders when the server first opens, they get on top fast and stay on top. In fact, I have seen in these forums many places where players want non-spender Age I servers because they cannot compete with the spenders. Spenders in Age I and Age II are on top and will always be on top. They deserve to be because they spend. Why should a free player be able to match them in a short period of time? It would just cause people not to spend. IF everyone chould get where spends are in a month or two then why spend? Thus those NOT willing to spend should have to put in months and months possible a year more time than the spenders do.
Exactly, free players don't want to be patient. This is a problem. Evony is a long term game, as in a year or years. The other problem is that free players feel a need to RUSH to get on the same level as the spenders as fast as possible. Well, Evony got smart and started Age II. This solved the rush problem for free SMART players like myself (for the first 4 months I was a free player). Spenders cannot wipe you out after BP expires IF IF IF you play on original Age II servers. You can relax, take your time and build up at your own pace. Then engage the strong boys 8 months down the road. Age II is a long term strategy game. Which is why I am so disappointed they decided to force Age I play style on newer Age II servers, voiding the entire core feature of Age II... turning it right back into Age I. Very very sad...
The current HH system is not well balanced, I'll give you that. But it does not create an advantage so great that the imbalance kills the game. An extra 50 levels is not much. We are looking at L100 and L150 heros. Not L100 and L800 heros like Age I. The playing field is indeed not level with the current system, but it is far more level than Age I.


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