Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-31539562-20170618144451/@comment-30549602-20170621050859

Kitzi83 wrote:

...they're in fact punishing Newbies who won't get past level 30, 40 or 50... I just hate it to see so many of my Newbies AND even good old friends leaving the game.

Kitzi83 I would beg to disagree in respect of newbies at lower levels.

The cost of combining for them has not changed since I first started and I know it is perfectly possible to play this game (with the help of friends) at lower levels, while spending only moderately on the occasional offer for energy and rubies with a crystal, say.

Newbies can afford this game, provided they do not go hogwild trying to combine sets way ahead of their own game's chrono, instead of waiting to combine till the set appears as a quest.

Also, if they routinely visit, gift, trade, craft and use boosts, they will build a coin and reagent bank big enough to craft the less expensive fixers they need at the lower levels.

I know, because I did this myself, (until I discovered this site at around the late forties, maybe).

Newbies might strike a problem crafting for some non-giftable sets. But I seem to recall I did not form so many of those at lower levels. Remember, the visiting quotas are tied to reputation? So that limits the number of free CIs too. I started earning non giftables after I maxed out my rep trophy I think... I could be wrong there.

No folks, the very onerous crafting of 4, 5 and 6 cottons etc imposed on HIGHER level sets is aimed at US. And it's nothing more than a crude mechanism to correct the fixer market. In other words a hefty tax on the rich, to claw back what might be perceived as illicit gains from various glitches and erm, shall we say "workarounds" to use a word bandied hereabouts.

One way or another, we are being made to pay the piper.

Of course it is a very poor business strategy to price most players out of the game. And yes, they intend to slow us down. Collectively we must seem to them (the developers) to be a very hungry beast.