Thank you for your feedback.
CoW is a good game, but in terms of being just a military strategy and tactics game, whilst the use of gold in game play is an option, CoW is NOT just a military tactics and strategy game. Gold use can be abused and is used to ruin the game for those just wanting to enjoy the game just for military tactics and strategy.
I have said it before but will say it again here. Keep gold use to outside game play.
During player game creation have it that they can create either:-
1. the standard game where gold use is available for those that dont mind gold use during the game or
2. the Pay-to-play game, where there is NO gold use options in game, and you can also pay extra gold upfront for each optional extras such as-
a. extra resources in game;
b. reduced unit production times;
c. reduced building construction times;
d. reduced research times;
e. additional research teams;
f. faster game times;
g. faster building repair times;
h. faster unit repair times;
i. faster morale improvement times;
j. faster resource collection;
There would be no options for the use of gold at all in a Pay-to-play game once the game is started.
I for one would pay-to-play depending on costs.
The top winners of a pay-to-play game can get a free pay-to-play game, and the others can keep there end game points until they have accumulated enough points to earn a free pay-to-play game.
Sorry I have gone off track.
War booty from enemy capital city capture - please give us a share of the resource stockpile for that country if we capture their capital - i believe in most wars there was a desire for war booty capture to offset all the blood and sweat lost, or to capture resources because you were short.