More Money for GC

with thanks to belial and pandy im glad to say that you cant buy your empire anything out of nothing in this game. this is balance , fair and of course fun , gordo ill let slide as hey , your buying them off an empire who plays and probably cant buy himself a paid , he works for it and it doesnt unbalance the game ( something out of thin air )

i hate games you can buy yourself to the top in * cough cough uc etc

well i don`t like the whole "buy infra idea" but entertaining the idea i would say you could only buy lvls 1-100 of the infra and the other 155 would have to be researched at and the number of turns required for those lvls would have to be uped to around 10k a lvl i think that`d be kinda fair,

or to be more fair to those who can`t afford to pay for infra lvls make it so every lvl after lvl 100, those who paid for lvls would have an additional 500 turns added on per lvl for every lvl they bought for the remainder of there research. so if you paid for all 100 lvls each lvl of infrastructure there after would cost you 52,500 turns

so that way it wouldn`t become an over poweing factor to the game and would be little more than a quick boost to your income at the start.

also stephen still occasionally does things, but maybe he considers us like the older children, capable of taking care of ourselves for the most part.

increase the perks of paid, right now its 6 USD for 50% more turns and 15% faster turns and some planet boost. well howbout rank 2 paid: 81-82% more turns (30 to 55) and 40% faster turns and crank the price to like $15 per month so only rly hardcore players wanting to dish out get it, like on the verge of being so over priced ppl wont buy it.

also, just because gc gets more income doesnt mean it woul get more updates, and even if we did we would prolly get a big pack of titan projects. (for any once ucer player you knows what i mean, for everyone else its just a dead link on projects page)

I think what may inject a little life into the game is a new playable game only available to paid races.

but there are many ideas which may also increase game activity, tbh there is no right or wrong answer. But in my personal opinion letting people buy infra will just make the rich richer and increase the gap between older players and new ones.

well Sol what would you suggest as an income drive for the game? It clearly needs something done to make money and attract new players and the creators attention, everyone says no boo hiss to ideas but noone is prepared to offer an alternative or indeed a solution. I dont think anyone wants to see GC turn into UC but its stagnant and all the ship fixes in the world are not going to bring in new players or income to the game.

dude balance gets destroyed any time theres a successful UW. and the current balance may get destroyed but a new one will pop up and the skilled will still be able to out combat the unskilled in GC

i agree with sol :P
*yawn /:o

i`m new to this game and hence the dabate about who`s better GC or UC. Personally i have tried both of them and prefer GC. Rather than buying infra specifically, you could buy game tokens, and use them like gourds to give yourself a boost, or others for that matter but put a limit on the number of token/dollars used in any one 24 hr period.

Or even better, make it so that you have to come out of DP to use the next token. Which would have the effect of only allowing 1 level of infra, or other research or planet exploration per DP period, regardless of the DP length.

This would also mean more players actually playing rather than DPing and more battles.

.....im going to completely ignore everything written on this thread.
GC should never let you buy infra EVER, it ruins the game.

Ehh. I`m ignoring the people below to say that if we do have to pay $$$$ for infracture levels, then the max needs to be at 500 with players being forced to buy the last 50 levels regardless. >_>

i had a feeling this is a long standing issue between Stephen and certain quarters in GC... he made a point by giving more attention to UC more than GC... and until now, UC is getting having more players than GC... when it comes to RL, generate income is top in priority list b4 you can do charity... maybe it`s time to change...

yea UC is the place where stephen makes his money and players require little if any skill to make it to the top, just leave GC out of the money part to give others an unfair advantage cause gc is were you need skill and not just money to play and i like it the way it is

if gc makes more money steph would spend it all on uc :O

well if GC makes more money, then they will have more the reast to keep it alive, and maybe actually have some updates daily lol, I like the idea. I mean sure that would make it easy for new empires to higher infra, so I guess you could put a cap limit of lets say up to 150 infra, and thats the max so they have to research to max out infra. and yeah you could say its like UC but who cares, imo it looks like cause of that its more active and Stephen cares more about it, gc can make a come back and might not die if this would work out. just throwing in my 2 pennies =p (cents)

hmmm, mimic UC or not Mimic UC? That is and has always been the question! I am a Pompous non talented better than thou (UC`ers), who understands the importance of being the few and the proud. I however would give up a few George`s for DP`s just to buy a few hunge of the pink Orb. Stephen has abandoned us few hundred GC`ers to cater to the several hundred UC`ers. I applaud Deathroe for thinking outside of the lines (box, eh)..... New Ideas might save this game (Not a fan of buying Infra, but we should listen and debate any or all ideas). We the people of the U ( Umm got lost there for a minute). We the players of GC need to be inventive and learn how to play the game (or in my case enjoy, "tooo slooow to learn") as it is. If I were Maru and I`m not! I would wash my hands of the whole affair.

anywho, or way thanks for coloring outside of the lines deathroe and keep doing it!

heh sounds a lot like UC ehh?

lol,so rich people irl can have more cash in-game as well ? :p Not that good idea imo,will destroy the balance in the game if you ask me,10 days old empires with 150 infra or even more ? No ,thanks :p