Quote Originally Posted by BigEz View Post
Look at the title baronet.

Requirements:
10 lion
5 rose
2000 prestige.

2000 prestige!!

I still havent got enough medals for baronet and Im in 200k prestige. Looking at this wild disparity, its far easier to say that the requirements for actually gaining towns (and thus having ANY chance whatsoever of competing) is based on actually buying medal boxes.

This game is NOT free to play, with the modified medal drop rate.

its free to TRIAL, which is exactly how it is. You're cut off from most of the gameplay with the abysmal MDR, unable to get roses and lions, and very particularly, impossible to get prinzessin without buying (this is newer servers with low drop rate remember), so this game is NOT free to play. its free to run in trial mode, because all games in trial mode allow you very limited access to what the whole game is, cutting out large parts until you buy, which is exactly how the medal drop rate makes evony. free? my ass.

The ads say that Evony is free to play. It says nothing about it being free to win. Evony is a business. If everyone were just able to breeze to Prinzessin at will, how would they make money? Play all you want for free.

Having said that, I do think that it's pretty crappy how they messed up the drop rate. By the time I hit Prinzessin on server 15, I had about 35 Lion Medals and 40 Rose Medals. They could have dropped it a little. Seems like they just arbitrarily nuked it though. That's wrong.