Gold rewards being lowered

Now I realize that it's hard to please everybody and you devs are trying your best with what you have. But in a recent post you have said that you plan to lower gold rewards in an effort to help the economy by lowering resource prices due to people having less gold. When I read that post in the forums the alarm bells started going off.    In Olympus I have a difficult time saving up enough gold for upgrades and researching while at the same time trying to craft gear. I have no surplus and am actually at a shortage so I never really worry about buying resources from the market although I can tell that with prices as high as they can go it's not good. At the same time lowering gold from battles would just about kill my attempts at both upgrading and crafting. I would have to choose one or the other. I'm just hoping for another solution. Like I said I know it's hard(almost impossible) to please everyone in this game but if i'm the only one who doesn't want gold rewards lowered then I will not bring it up again.

There must be a given rate of tax a person pays to sell Resource. For example i must pay 500 gold to post 1k iron for 3000 and if it gets sold I get refunded with my 500 gold, otherwise I lose it.

How does this help? people will spot putting 1k res for 3k cause most likely the market is flooded with those and you can fine 1k res for 2800 alot; so those 1kres 3k gold sellers are forced to lower their prices, then the relatively cheap sellers will also lower and it goes on.

If this all fails then the max someone can sell res should be 2k, instead of 3.

A better solution to all this is increase res drop. the res you get from battle is 1/5-1/6 the gold you get. make it 1/3 instead.

Drop in gold wont lower prices, only strengthen valuta. If gold costs stay the samrle for repairs, I predict a rise in general prices in contra to the general belief.

My suggestion would be to raise gold income gained from battle. Resources on the market are bound by the 3:1 ratio, meaning they cannot rise in price.

Lowering gold while increase resource rewards is what is going to happen and it makes the most sense.

No one wants gold to inflate to the point of insanity. It's only meant to be marginally more valuable than the other resources.

XViper wrote:

Lowering gold while increase resource rewards is what is going to happen and it makes the most sense.

No one wants gold to inflate to the point of insanity. It's only meant to be marginally more valuable than the other resources.

Correct....Reducing gold rewards and increasing resources rewards substantially also means that players will have a surplus of 1 or even more resources which can be traded in the Auction House and thus earn Gold.

Wood rewards have gone up, Iron and Stone have gone down. (since last patch)

What have you done? >_>

XViper wrote:

Wood rewards have gone up, Iron and Stone have gone down. (since last patch)

What have you done? >_>

Unless I'm missing something I recall that the change hasn't been made yet.

RuneSlayer wrote:

There will be another update, probably tomorrow, which will address some issues that the game economy has.

http://www.battleconforum.com/t1796-update-15-1-2014

I know that, that is why I am asking.
Because nothing was meant to have changed yet, but Im pretty sure something has.

Now that you mention that update i'm a bit confused. When Runeslayer talkes about the items having a reduction what is the reduction in? Costs? If so that is excellent     

???
Its pretty clear Scaren.

Reduction in repair time and gem cost for reforging and repairing.

XViper wrote:

I know that, that is why I am asking.
Because nothing was meant to have changed yet, but Im pretty sure something has.

Apologies, misunderstood your "What have you done?" for rhetorical outrage.

And are you sure that iron and stone have been reduced while wood increased? The resource reward outputs can be vary drastically. I haven't noticed the same issue you have today, rather I recall a PvP where I got substantial iron with other resource rewards being a fifth of that.

Scaren wrote:

Now that you mention that update i'm a bit confused. When Runeslayer talkes about the items having a reduction what is the reduction in? Costs? If so that is excellent     

Cost reductions would be nice, but the update was strictly to reduce crafting/repairing time.

Thanks for the clarification there Zys. I wasn't exactly sure what the percentages on the gear was for but know I know

Since this topic exists, I will bump it instead of making a new one. I don't know how pervasive it is; but the new gold reward system has me fighting naked to avoid repairing gear and fleeing from well setup armies instead of fighting them, sacrificing the command point and possible CP to pay ~40 gold to heal instead of getting wiped. I also plan to upgrade my gold smelter as much as possible after finishing my current plans/goals. Suddenly the gold building being limited by market means a lot more lol...

I rarely have excess resources to trade for gold, as I account for a surplus in one res (ie stone) by planning my research and buildings according (ie upgrading barracks to dump a differential of stone). I'm currently trying out selling frags on the market, though I'm a hoarder by nature and it kinda hurts .

Any tips on getting more gold would be greatly appreciated.

LSLarry wrote:

Any tips on getting more gold would be greatly appreciated.

I know you said you rarely have excess, but... Sell your resources?

It is a little ridiculous that people are complaining about the gold reduction.
Before everyone was just trading their gold for resources anyway! Now you don't have to because you have the resources instead!!

You're actually BETTER OFF!
The amount of extra resources you are getting more than makes up for the gold you would have been spending to obtain them previously.....

It also has reduced market prices almost immediately! I did actually just want tips for making more (moar?) goald

The rest is just, well, what I'm doing hehe.