Hello,

as already mentioned in the alpha forums, it looks promising, but sadly the pricing/vip is out of hand...

About the infos: You should still give the char info screen instantly to the player, as some skills require infos from that window, as you don't know how much e.g. 10% INT/STR/DEX are. Just one example. Also the infos on everything that costs real money is not enough. When I click the Respecc button all I get is a payment window, telling me to buy shardium. But not how much I would need for the respecc.

Next is VIP. I know where you "copied" some things incl. the VIP but I must say that said VIP is way to heavy. Making you pay $10 (it's not that much but almost as much as a full fledged mmo sub) and makes you imbalanced fast against normal players, as you can skip every cooldown but on top of that you also have limited stamina.

So here is my idea of a reworked VIP:
1. Not permanently instant cooldowns. But for that 2 free cooldown skips per day
2. 15% faster cooldown on every building
3. 10% more All-Ressources (EXP, Gold, Lumber, etc) from all ingame sources
4. All inventory storage is usable
5. If you HAVE to use this stamina thing, give them 100 Stamina extra

That rework gives the VIP players a big advancement, but in a far more balanced way.

Also please rethink the stamina feature, as this is just a way of "Play X missions and then go away". If you try to "buy" some time to make progress on the new features of the game, better make players level slower instead of forbid them to play.

Iventory: You should make, at least, the first page a procedually opening spot. So players can aquire one page by playing the game. Maybe like every 10 Levels one row.
As you don't tell us what a row costs in money, I can go onto that topic. But also here I'd advise to make it possible to get them ingame. Not easy of course. But for example as a rare reward for hard end game missions.

That said, keep in mind, that players not always have big pockets of money to throw at you, so don't hinder them or disadvantage them by a big scale. Make it possible for them, to gain some advantages, too. As mentioned on the inventory, don't make it easy. But give loyal players a candy here and there. Like VIP for a day every 2-4 weeks for such. So they get a bit candy and to be able to keep up at least a bit.
So make it possible to gain e.g. a full respecc for a consecutive playing of 30 days or such. Keep your loyal players at your side.

If you have any questions about my thoughts, I'll gladly answer them.
Would like to go more indeep but as you don't tell any prices and such, I sadly can't.

kind regards
Exportforce

Hi,

thanks for the response!

Inventory: There are 2 ways to use it, I know both versions being used in other games.
1. Just block everything, except mandatory Items like Quest Items or Bought VIP stuff.
2. (Better Version) You lose the capability to put stuff into the inventory, but still can take out stuff. You HAVE to move the full stack on a field to a "free" space to use/unstack it. Yes, a player then could use a 24h token to full spam his inventory, but he wouldn't have such a big bonus out of it.

Cooldown + Stamina
I did write what I meant, but being not a native english speaking user could create some misunderstanding, so sorry if there are some.
It's the thing you point out yourself... On the one hand, you give a player the ability to skip everything but on the other hand you block them with stamina.

Thats why I made the suggestion without having a full-skip everthing.

Hi,

version 1 is just a version I have seen already in a few games... It has its pros and cons. But version 2 is definitly something to keep pinging in your head, as it doesn't lock the items out. You just have to drag them back onto a usable space.

About the cooldowns: They are HEAVILY TOO POWERFULL. Highly OP.
I really do know that. I was a product manager on a game using it and was highly against that mechanic and the game also died on this mechanic, as non-vip players where totally at a no-competition level for the whole game. I know WT (I don't know if I may use the name of other games, thus just a shorty on this) uses it too and I was as test a VIP on my own there and there too, just way to op. sure, you limit everything via that stamina thing. But keep in mind, as this is not BW or EB but an RPG/Strategy mix, this is something players have had more than very bad experiences with, a lot of players will run away when they see such a feature.

A better approach is to make leveling slower.
I already saw a thread where people are on the current max level and I bet the opener's a vip. So it might be a better idea to give bigger building cooldowns as a slow down and give VIP, as mentioned, 15% off of those cooldowns. This way, they are faster then regular players but still in way you can handle with new content and such.

VIP doesn't make much of a difference now at all. Anyone who is claiming it to be overpowered hasn't spent enough time with the game.