If you could pay for turns... - Earth Empires Forum

NukEvil

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Oct 14th 2010, 11:58:44

I wouldn't be spending any time on this game if I knew someone, somewhere, would always be able to have more turns than me, simply because they have more access to whatever currency is used.

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TAN

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Oct 14th 2010, 12:46:24

What NukEvil said.

FREEEEEDOM!!!

dustfp

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Oct 14th 2010, 12:48:55

what TAN said.

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Fooglmog

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Oct 14th 2010, 13:02:05

What dustfp said.

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spawn

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Oct 14th 2010, 13:05:07

what Fooglmog said.

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Requiem

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Oct 14th 2010, 14:17:59

Guys, you're totally going the wrong direction. I know that. However I also know that some people out there would buy turns if they could and I was just wondering how much they'd be willing to spend. I swear that's all its about...

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mrford

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Oct 14th 2010, 14:34:14

I don't really care enough to pay for turns. I'd happily make a donation, but making it about turns is stupid.

Bring back patron accounts with similar bonuses wouldn't be bad.

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[21:37:01] <&KILLERfluffY> when I was doing FA stuff for sof the person who gave me the longest angry rant was Mr Ford

M m i x X

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Oct 14th 2010, 14:35:15

what mrford said.

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Detmer

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Oct 14th 2010, 14:36:46

I would pay $0.10 USD/turn.

TAN

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Oct 14th 2010, 14:36:57

Poor? lolol

I am not poor at all.

I just find the idea of a financial mechanism that gives the edge to no-life players ridiculous.

Why should a poor player be at a strategical deficit simply because someone with money wants an edge?

If you could pay for turns, we'd have to pull Comwood out of retirement in order to combat the 10,000 turns that llaar would buy!

FREEEEEDOM!!!

Trife

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Oct 14th 2010, 14:37:54

When I played SGW, they would have supporter packages.

If you 'donated' 50$ to the game, they would give you a one time gift of x amount of currency ingame, y amount of turns, z amount of untrained units..

Most games have somewhere you can donate to the game/designers and receive a small bonus insite.. I wonder if Pang and Co. have thought about doing this. Since we've had Patron/Platinum Status in the past, I don't think the idea is too outlandish.

edit: perhaps the patron status for EE could also bring a small ingame bonus, instead of just a fancy tag on the forums. Perhaps a small % bonus to BPT, income, warfare %, ect would be small enough to not unbalance the game, but does allow those who donate to receive a small thank you

Edited By: Trife on Oct 14th 2010, 14:40:29
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Requiem

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Oct 14th 2010, 15:08:07

*note to self*

Ask TAN for a loan.

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Shinigami

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Oct 14th 2010, 15:33:52

Hell man, most of the time I do good to remember to play all of the turns given to me for free.

Servant

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Oct 14th 2010, 16:43:59

I do agree we need to find a way to better support the game.

But the strength of the game is that it can't be bought.

Z is #1

martian

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Oct 14th 2010, 16:50:09

I wouldn't mind paying to get special artwork or something (kind of what xbl does) or a special board. However money shouldn't be able to buy any kind of actual play advantage over others.

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Detmer

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Oct 14th 2010, 16:53:12

I don't think most people get the point of this. =P

Requiem

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Oct 14th 2010, 16:56:19

Originally posted by Detmer:

I don't think most people get the point of this. =P

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martian

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Oct 14th 2010, 17:01:36

to my knowledge none of the staff actually have any desire to go to a model where you give money to get some kind of in game advantage.
:P

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qzjul

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Oct 14th 2010, 18:23:52

That said, if anybody wants to buy us all ferrari's or a Gulfstream V, just let us know, and I'm sure we can come to some sort of arrangement.....

=D

Finally did the signature thing.

qzjul

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Oct 14th 2010, 18:24:32

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulfstream_V

Gulfstream must come with gas for a year though.

Finally did the signature thing.

ponderer

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Oct 14th 2010, 18:39:29

no bribery to escape corruption?

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mrford

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Oct 14th 2010, 18:55:28

My uncle has a G-IV, but he's in the Texas. Rich bastard

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[21:37:01] <&KILLERfluffY> when I was doing FA stuff for sof the person who gave me the longest angry rant was Mr Ford

Marshal

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Oct 14th 2010, 19:09:46

buying turns would be bad for wars, if fsing alliance would buy enuf turns they could kill defending tag on fs.

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Junky

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Oct 14th 2010, 20:44:02

I wouldn't pay anything for turns.. its bad enough I'm stuck play WoW...

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Lord Slayer

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Oct 14th 2010, 20:48:35

In the spirit of the thread, I'd spend nothing for turns durring a netting set, cause I hate netting as is. But, in a war set, durring a FS, $5 a pop for a turn may make me think about it.

Havoc

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Oct 14th 2010, 20:59:14

Can i pay with my body and other skills?

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Marshal

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Oct 14th 2010, 21:10:02

with that payment you would lose turns.

bore

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Oct 14th 2010, 21:14:28

first i thought i would never pay for turns, but i guess if we were like five hits from killing someone and all out of turns i guess i would consider it.

iTavi

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Oct 14th 2010, 21:39:12

what spawn said

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Oct 14th 2010, 21:53:53

YAY JUNKY!!!!

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deepcode

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Oct 15th 2010, 1:16:52

Old platinum level with a real patron board would be cool, 5$ per 3 months, I paid for that for a while. It's nothing big, just the thought that you are helping out with hosting to keep things going.

Though to set a price for a resource within the game and have no limits to it? Ixnay on that one, I'd end up not playing anymore. It's a good model for a game that exists to make money, no doubt. It's also a good way to shut out anyone from competing if doing so requires monetary investment. That's too much like real life, we're all here to escape that hell hole.

mrford

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Oct 15th 2010, 1:31:09

there is a patron board

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[21:37:01] <&KILLERfluffY> when I was doing FA stuff for sof the person who gave me the longest angry rant was Mr Ford

oats

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Oct 15th 2010, 1:33:48

I wouldn't pay for turns. I'd make a donation.

deepcode

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Oct 15th 2010, 2:03:18

Originally posted by mrford:

there is a patron board

I hereby demand Platinum status be implemented!

Fuzzy Logic

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Oct 15th 2010, 3:05:44

You guys should add in-game avatars for when people send messages or search for a country, and people could like pay real money to make them have like jewels and fluff or some fluff. it'd persist across resets & servers, of course (or, you could customize each one, but have all purchased stuff available across your account!).

Alicia

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Oct 15th 2010, 3:32:21

My tanks need more bling!

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SakitSaPuwit

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Oct 15th 2010, 4:07:16

I hate doing those codes for bonus turns, can't I just pay somebody to do it for me?

but what do i know?
I only play this game for fun!

CeyLonTEa

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Oct 15th 2010, 4:19:18

pay pang's for all the booze for the month

gwagers

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Oct 15th 2010, 13:35:36

Pay for turns? No.

Pay for more out-of-game tools on Boxcar/whatever hosting site my clan happens to be using? That's an idea.

Now is the time for those of you who know what you're talking about to tell me where I went wrong.

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Who has time for that? BLAST THEM ALL!

Marshal

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Oct 15th 2010, 19:16:01

let's turn EE to FarmVille. :P

anubis0079

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Oct 15th 2010, 19:59:33

i will plant missile trees and indys as my crops ;)

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Jelly

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Oct 15th 2010, 21:40:54

I would pay for a zombie themed country, units and everything all with zombie terms.

snawdog

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Oct 16th 2010, 0:47:17

I quit EVERY game i was playing on FaceBook when i realized that you could pay for an advantage.

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Akula

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Oct 16th 2010, 14:13:19

Originally posted by Jelly:

I would pay for a zombie themed country, units and everything all with zombie terms.

damnit, you have the rest of us for that, Jelly :P

i would far rather spend my cash on a nekky dancer ;)

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gwagers

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Oct 16th 2010, 17:47:48

Thank you, Akula, you read my mind.

Junky

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Oct 16th 2010, 19:06:02

zombie countries would be haxors :-P no units killed... and only multiply with every grab.... would make for 1 hella farmer strat.. all profits... wonder if you could be Civ killed by yourself :-P

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Marshal

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Oct 16th 2010, 20:41:52

Originally posted by anubis0079:

i will plant missile trees and indys as my crops ;)

self-grew military and missiles?

as for Akula's and Pelo's suggestion: That ain't pg-13.

Junky

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Oct 16th 2010, 22:44:40

$5 for refresh of turns or Readiness could work.. but who'd really want to spend it on this game... on second thought, I've spent $5 on worse..

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Snarf

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Oct 17th 2010, 17:41:12

Originally posted by SakitSaPuwit:

I hate doing those codes for bonus turns, can't I just pay somebody to do it for me?

I'm with him. Make some sort of patron status where you automatically get the 6 free turns every 24 hrs and those that don't pay have to do the vote thing to get them. It's fair you are paying to be lazy not gain an advantage over anyone else.