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Thread: Minor Fortune Packs?

  1. #131
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    Speech text is slightly better than the Ritual of Pact I won, which I will add to my collection, and the single speaker that I got today! I too saved up an ammie. My hero gear will have to wait now til tomorrow. Or the day after. Or maybe the day after that......

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    I don't even bother to collect my ammies most days. I think it's a hassle and I wish the collecting process would be streamlined like it is for other Facebook aps, where you can collect your gifts with a single click each. I made a petition for Evony to put the amulet itself on our accounts like they do with the warhorns and remove the "minor fortune pack" item.
    This change does not make it so members without facebook can play evenly with someone with it. The food upkeep is the reason people without facebook cannot compete and I truly believe upkeep should be reduced for all, would not mind never having to post and click another Hungry No More.

    But to remove the amulets...

    A player who coins can get to Prinz the first day and get 10 cities right off the bat. A player without can farm medals and after weeks or months CAN get 10 cities. Materials don't appear to drop in any way other than from amulets and spending. I've heard rumors of dropping from level 10 valleys, but it's so rare I've never seen it. It took my sister 8 months, but she got her gear up to level 9 or 10, working hard at it for a long long time.

    Players who don't coin should be able to get items at least occasionally so they can really play the game! the chance of getting a teleport from an amulet is very small, I used to get one every few months and being able to port with them was a real treat. With this change a non coiner is likely to see exactly 1-2 advanced tele ever in their entire game. If the ammies are to be gone forever from facebook, please give players a larger number of daily amulets or make materials and teleports and strats a realistic drop from farming NPCs, giving the non coiners a way to enjoy all aspects of the game and not be reduced to nothing but farms for the coiners.
    Last edited by ElfFromSpace; 07-20-2012 at 04:07 PM.
    Give Straight Amulets, Remove the Packaging from Facebook Gifts!
    http://www.causes.com/causes/574667

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    I really like Sizzle's idea from the feedback thread http://feedback.evony.com/evony/topi...b_gift_updates What do people here think of it?

    Sizzil Evony 2 days ago
    Why are ammys being taken off of facebook? Is it temporary to fix bugs or is this permanent.

    If it's being taken off permanently.. why not add consecutive daily ammy reward instead.

    Days logged in consecutively:
    1 day = 1 ammy
    2 day = 2 ammy
    3rd day = 3 ammy
    4th day = 5 ammys
    5th day = 7 ammys
    6 day = 10 ammys
    7th day = 15 ammys

    Almost all fb games have a reward like this but this could be incorporated in with evony. Anyway we are all wondering why ammys have been removed.
    Give Straight Amulets, Remove the Packaging from Facebook Gifts!
    http://www.causes.com/causes/574667

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    more money can be made by limiting access to popular items, hence no ammy gifts, no speech texts. war horns and hungry no more maybe next.

  5. #135

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    The next step will be a monthly subscription to play...
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    Thanks so much!

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    I started evony as a non-coiner. I finished my gear on my first server by farming materials and winning them (or cents) on the wheel. Toward the last few months of my time on NA29, I started to buy a couple packs here and there so I could port around and buy excals. Finding that spending a few bucks here and there made the game more fun, I grew to accept that coining wasn't a crutch when done judiciously. I left that server and started a new one, spending more at the outset so I could finish my gear quickly and get to the port around and break stuff stage sooner. It's a war game and that's the fun bit.

    I am about $400 in to NA37 now and I spend $30 every six weeks or so, more during promotional events. However, even having spent as much (or based on perspective, little) as I have, I still depended on my daily 21 amulets because I won as many cents from the wheel as I had purchased. So for me, the amulets still enhance my gameplay even though I do spend some money.

    So having laid all that out, the move by Evony to remove amulets as a Facebook gift under the guise of making gameplay more fair has made a decision for me. Namely, NA37 is my last server. I will not spend twice as much as I have spent on 37 because the value is not there for me. If anything, Evony has achieved the opposite of what they claim to have set out to do. Non-spenders and moderate spenders are now at more of a disadvantage to the heavy coiners because now it's harder to finish gear, get ports, and useful strats such as E&Es and Sow Spies.

    I understand and appreciate that Evony is a for-profit entity however my gut feeling is that this move will alienate players such as myself and drive us to a different game. How much of Evony's total revenue is derived from this demographic is unknown to me however I would guess that the majority of total spending is done by us and not the mega coiners who are dropping $10K+.

    I do also expect another unintended negative consequence of this move by Evony and that is an increased use of bots. In order for people to farm the needed materials for gear, use of a bot will likely become mandatory, further frustrating gameplay.

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    Excuse me for not reading the thread, but can you no longer open ammies as well?

    (I know you can't send em, but can you still accept them?)
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    I hope Siphon doesnt post

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    Quote Originally Posted by SiphonXP View Post
    Excuse me for not reading the thread, but can you no longer open ammies as well?

    (I know you can't send em, but can you still accept them?)
    you can still accept them
    the fortune packs that were sent before they disabled the send are still available
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    Quote Originally Posted by Balaam View Post
    you can still accept them
    the fortune packs that were sent before they disabled the send are still available
    *insert diabolical plan here*
    Quote Originally Posted by NoMistakes View Post
    I hope Siphon doesnt post

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    There was a comment from a player called Hawka on the forums who nailed it.

    What Evony have done this time is trigger an massive emotional response from players. Now normally, being able to do that is a very rare, and very powerful marketing tool but Evony have unfortunately got it wrong.

    I've spoken with many peeps over the last couple of days, and words and phrases like "sickening" and "last straw" have been used, these are huge responses and to be able to engage such passion you would think Evony would have the acumen to harness this for the good of their company not the opposite.

    I am also of the opinion (I'm open to being proven wrong) that the utter and disheartening although not unexpected lack of response from Evony is further compounding the unhappiness of players.

    I used to be a coiner but I'm done on that front now - viva le boycott, I would rather buy a new dress or perhaps some cheese.

    Lot's of people are scouting out new games and I think there are a lot out there that encapsulate the social aspect that makes evony special, without the horrible sinking "I've been screwed" feeling that also makes Evony special.

    I'm not quite done yet, I need to find a new home that I can take my alliance too, but soon I think.
    Last edited by Myrtal; 07-20-2012 at 09:42 PM. Reason: I can't type for carp

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