29JUL12 - MAJOR RELEASE (The New Age)

How do you equip 50k stalwarts with Vanguard Armor? You buy them of course. No one ever said you had to make em all yourself.   Thats the whole purpose of trading. To get something you want that you can't produce (or can't produce enough of) you will have to exchange goods with someone who has them and doesnt need them. You will have stuff that that person wants (i.e. gold, crafting resources, Basic weapons and armor, etc) that you don't need. You make a trade to each get what you want. That is how an economy works.

Ya, it might take one person making them all by themselves 6 years to get enougb, but it wont take 200 people making them strictly for profit very long to produce that many.

If they fix it so you can make everything you want yourself, the game would just let the rich players get richer, and keep the smaller players from ever having a chance to close the gap between them and the top players.


With a system like that, there is no point in a newer player even bothering to play. They wont ever be able to compete. Playing the game longer than ever one else isnt strategy, and being stronger than everyone else just because you got here first isnt strategy.


With the new trade system, some of those giant gold stockpiles that the top llayers have been sitting on for multiple years now have a use other than letting the vets out produce newer players in times of war super easily. If a vet wants to equip their 50k stalwarts, or whatever troop, with a specialty armor in order to gain an edge over an equivalent size player, they are going to have to spread the wealth around to some of the newer players to get the goods needed.

Ithink some of yall are not quite grasping the purpose the developers had in mind when they designed the update.

They wanted to make a dynamic economy. Not help top players overpower smaller ones by an even more insurmountable amount.

Or at least that is how I interpret the changes.

Edited by Cleopatra - 27 Aug 2012 at 19:13

hey if my 300 spearmen can kill more, im all for it lol

Each level of the plate armourer gives 6 min or so with the first building and even less with 2nd or 3rd. I cant find anywhere the numbers it should give but if you specialize a whole town I think you should be able to supply more than one city with the goods else it makes NO sense.

You people are really overusing the word sandbox to talk about everything... this is a game before a sandbox...

Silent/Steadfast wrote: You aren't supposed to equip 50k stals.  You're supposed to equip 150.  The idea is to give small armies an edge.