Too much disparity

[rafmeister_5440998]

I disagree about the disparity. Buying gems does not really get you that much bonus in the early game. My answer may change once the beginner rewards disappear. I do find the VIP flag to be very useful.

[Skrubs]

What the OP means is that if you have gems you can "buy your power" in the sense you buy those millions of credits/coins and then use the gems to also reset cooldown times on talents/smithing and can buy tons of runes easily.

The talents right now make up the majority of your players power followed up by runes and miles behind your actual equipement comes in last for how much it adds to your overall power.

My gear is miles better than near everyone that has 200-400k more power than my toon but since I dont have gems to spend on cooldown timers I cant power skill talents and can not buy tons of coin to buy millions of runes either.

This game is very "pay to win".

As a test why not give me a character for just 1 day that represents a "whale gamer" that can and do spend $10,000 or more in the very first week of a server opening and Ill show you exactly how broken the current systems are.

This is exactly what I meant. If you have gems, you buy the credit/coins, all you want. It snowballs from there. Once you can bully people in the wild you get more. The banish events reward you according to your damgage done... this rewards the higher powered players as well. I'm not saying that there shouldn't be some benefit to dropping real life money in the game, but the disparity is great. Now that the Noble Lady doesn't give gems, the little guys don't really have a decent way to close the gap. Yeah, we earn gems by doing quests and stuff in the game, but so do the people who already bought them. They get them faster. The most difficult thing to work out in these games that allow players to buy perks is to find enough balance to keep both the "Whales" and the average gamer interested. I was merely giving my feedback on this issue. I wan't trying to start a cry fest over it.

[jupiter999]

As of today. with all the new patches, its almost impossible to get more than 10 gems/day, taking them off everywhere really has created an unbalanced game. I believe lots of players will actually leave. I've purchased very little so far and with all this , I don't feel like going any further with my plastic cards. Again, like Evony. it seems like some peoples are blinded by their greediness!