World Map and Gold Payout (An opinion)

11 Jan 2016, 21:13

I believe the frustration, strategies used, and all out blood-pit the world map offers, the payout is much too low.

I finished the world map in day 55 in first place with 2,608 VP. The payout? A mere 942 gold. One can earn that much easily in a 22-player map with much less frustration!

Let me give an example of an alliance game I reached 1st place in. Day 43, 129 VPs with a payout of 411 Gold. That's roughly 3.2x payout of the VP

With research slowed down on World Maps, it is more difficult to reach a point of power-through-tech. This means we effectively have to use grunt-units early on in order to maintain a position of power. This requires more effort and time involvement than standard games.

And yet, you only get a THIRD of your VP in World Maps? With anything truly useful in gold expenditure costing at least 1,700 Gold, I think this is a real kick in the ass, catering to Gold buyers.

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12 Jan 2016, 01:27

I totally agree! Mine just ended today, with first place getting 1,202 gold. Not nearly enough for the hassle you spend on the World Map.

12 Jan 2016, 15:23

While i don't play the world map due to not being able to make my own private game (thb, i'd like to use the map for private training sessions against AI) i do play the 22 player map and the 10 player 1939 map, both of which normally pay out more.

I feel for the size of the map, the amount of sound strategy you need, the pay out should be around 1,500-2000 gold- for the winner, of course.

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12 Jan 2016, 16:43

I totally understand the push to get players to buy Gold. However, you will also please non-buyers more for rewarding them for excelling in your game.

Pax Romana Communications Officer

21 Jan 2016, 20:54

So low payout? Lol, that's nice to know. May be we need 10% Goldusage payout? it would be pretty interresting, and it would breake huge goldusage.

22 Jan 2016, 08:03

Is this by design or just a bug? Every moderator in help channel and on the forums has confirmed that gold payouts on ANY map should be around 3 to 1. That said, winning the 100 man map which requires 3323 VP should give you a payout of around 10K gold.

Can someone in charge verify this? If gold payouts are indeed this low (one-third instead of 3:1) for a match that takes so much time/energy, why would anyone play it? There needs to be a decent prize for a tough competition. I guess it is back to 22 player matches!

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