I am playing the game on facebook.

Since some time (a month or two? I didn't play frequently, and didn't mind until now), warps are giving waaay too less gold upon use.
I uploaded a screenshot here: http://i64.tinypic.com/2ilfrzt.jpg

The 8 hours epic warp grants only an amount of gold which I normally get in less than one minute. The 30 minute warp is not even worth one creep kill.

Am I missing something?
I believe this to be a bug.

Best Regards!
Eike

the time warps give gold based on a formula that is mostly based on static DPS. Exactly the same as one gets if they close out the game and let it run on their servers.
when you are actually playing your gold per minute is based on all kinds of dynamic dps effects of people like turkey and so on who are pretty much not active if you close out the game.
if you were to swap out all funky crusaders and use a warp you would see that.
p.s. remove all crusaders and use a warp too just to see, LOL

If you are right, Raymond, then it has not always been handled this way.
I still remember the good old days (2 months ago and prior, lol), when I could accumulate lots of enemies in front of Jack O Lantern with using some buffs, and then spend 30m warps being worth 4 hours each.
They obviously changed it (may it be your version or not) and such a change was probably partly intentional, but the current state really makes no sense at all.

Beside that, I already noticed the laughable amount of gold that you get, when shutting down the game, and it may match the warp amount.

Am I right that crusaders with temporary buffs or those depending on creep numbers (like Chicken, Jack, Mercy) should always be replaced with other crusaders before shutting down the game, to maximize afk profits?

I think, the warp gold ratio is always that bad, including lower areas. I can answer your question more precisely, when I reset the next time. That could take quite a while though (possibly 2 weeks), because I am currently trying to reach area 600.

Edit: At the moment, a 30 minute time warp is worth ~25 monster kills (area 531 and didn't buy levels for quite some time). I guess, it equals 1 minute of playing. The current ratio is better than I described in my initial post, which was made during the mini event. But it is still a very bad ratio ;)

no, nothing changes.
well, yes, something changed.
you got to higher areas, and higher areas are exponentially harder to do.
doesn't matter if it's 30 minutes of a warp or 30 minutes real time they are the same, that can have very little effect at higher areas. and dps has less effect too, more important is critical clicks

@Raymond: Being on a higher area should not change the amount of time that a 30m warp is worth. When the warp is named "30m warp", then it should always be worth 30m of playing under current circumstances, shouldn't it? The exponential growth of difficulty would only mean that you have to wait longer for enough gold to come in and to buy the next 25 levels on your main dps (therefore you have to use more warps). It does not explain that a 30m warp on area 530 is only worth 1-2 creep kills, which can be achieved in a few seconds.

@Lisa: Are you sure about the gold bonus not being taken in?
That would be an explanation, but I really can't imagine that a developer would design something like that :P

@ Eike: Thank you for the extra information. I will pass that along to the developers.

@Raymond: Well, I'm not sure what you actually want to point out. As said, a 30m warp on level 530 grants an amount of gold which I normally get out of a few creeps, i.e. it is only worth some seconds. Why should I wait for 30 min on a level, when a few seconds waiting are already equaling the warp?