Help us identify Gold Usage

This sounds great! If a unit is built with gold, is it a gold unit?

If a unit is healed, do they become a gold unit

Good idea, if the Devs dont like it, nerf it down to just Alliance games etc.

But if we could, this is great!

Essentially, anything done with gold would flag it as being done with gold.

Another option, to not highlight the gold usage as much, is to word something in the newspaper cleverly.

"Breakthrough in Germany!"

A breakthrough in engineering resulted in the speedy production of 16th Light Tank Division

A breakthrough in engineering resulted in the speedy production of 18th Light Tank Division

A breakthrough in engineering resulted in the speedy production of 23rd Anti-Air Division

A breakthrough in engineering resulted in the speedy production of 26th Infantry Division

StrangeTalent wrote:

Essentially, anything done with gold would flag it as being done with gold.

Another option, to not highlight the gold usage as much, is to word something in the newspaper cleverly.

"Breakthrough in Germany!"

A breakthrough in engineering resulted in the speedy production of 16th Light Tank Division

A breakthrough in engineering resulted in the speedy production of 18th Light Tank Division

A breakthrough in engineering resulted in the speedy production of 23rd Anti-Air Division

A breakthrough in engineering resulted in the speedy production of 26th Infantry Division

I prefer the former. Maybe both, one for units and buildings, the other for construction and research?

The posts in newspaper would only encourage players to use world herald and read it more.

StrangeTalent wrote:

The posts in newspaper would only encourage players to use world herald and read it more.

There are filters that can be chosen to show specific content.

StrangeTalent wrote:

There are filters that can be chosen to show specific content.

It is against the rules to insult players or abuse them because they use gold, and I believe this feature would lead to that.

They already have notifications in the espionage tab when somebody reveals army using Gold. It would be no different.

i see your point.

Seems like a conflict of interest between players and the company. Such a feature would discourage gold usage which is how they make money. I think the best solution is to simply have games where gold cannot be used except that entering the game requires an initial hefty gold investment, commensurate with expected profits for a game and taking into account that players that invest gold in these games may not use much gold otherwise.

DxC wrote:

Seems like a conflict of interest between players and the company. Such a feature would discourage gold usage which is how they make money. I think the best solution is to simply have games where gold cannot be used except that entering the game requires an initial hefty gold investment, commensurate with expected profits for a game and taking into account that players that invest gold in these games may not use much gold otherwise.

A terrible idea. That would cause so much gold bashing for those who spent gold. We would only hear of more complaints.

DxC wrote:

Such a feature would discourage gold usage which is how they make money.

This becomes the dilemma in micro transaction games. This one is no different. You will not get a company who is funded via these types of transactions to agree with anything that:

1.) Negatively or otherwise identifies the "purchasers" of these transactions so that the rest of the community can paint targets on them for harassing. Gold is part of the game just as much as building a tank is. As previously mentioned a skilled player isn't going suffer much from the ability to purchase gold. My guess is the the whining doesn't stem from other people using gold as much as it stems from those who don't want to pay to use it themselves. I chose not to anymore, I did when I first started but now only to keep High Command going and this is how I chose to support the game. I don't mind paying $6\mo. for that.

2.) Anything that will deter another player from possibly making these purchases themselves. If I decide to buy gold, then it's really not anyone else's business except the company and myself. I do not have to let other players know about it and neither does the company or the game. Except the fact that it can happen and play accordingly, no need to identify things made or enforced with gold.

3.) Anything that will encourage the non-purchase. This is obvious as I don't believe that Bytro is a non-profit organization so why would they agree to anything related to taking money away from the company in any way, shape, fashion or form.

Just my $.02, hope I didn't offend anyone

The devs and Bytro would never do any of the sort as it is a form a public shaming of a user who PAYS for the game where many users do not.

Actually, I only intended on the suggested feature to be on select games, similar to my suggestion earlier about paying gold to have no-gold games.

You are entitled to an opinion as long as it does not break a rule.

Carlos Spicy-Wiener wrote:

So, if the devs and bytro were to implement this brilliant idea, should they also turn the HC logo into a dollar sign ($)?