Some people clearly are as daft as a rock. Plarium is running a business and it is not necessarily in their interest to gift objects in the game. They'd rather see people fight over already existing objects as that means units loss which equals spending. Without the intention to defend Plarium, as I think the price levels (in case someone wants to do a little extra) are way to steep, I do get their business model. Everything is based on analytics and Plarium has had years to finetune the games to get the most out of it. They are not a philantropists who want to provide you entertainment because they feel for you. They provide entertainment as it makes their cashregister go "ka-ching". Jeff Bezos did not become a billionaire by gifting his employees an above average wage either. He squeezed the last drop of effort out of them at the lowest cost = maximum return on investments for him. It really is not rocket science, now is it?
Sorry for not being clear enough. When the analytics shows us that the players on the server are out of mines, we will add the new ones.
Well your analytics need to wake up, the mines that are held by combines are so well defended no one will attack them because the loss is far greater than the gain of an Mine. Now if you have lots of mines like in Highlands and facebook they will be less defended and people will attack them more, thus lossing more troops thus spending more money, This is basic maths and logic.
You are point on MadToolz, the few existing mines are tightly held and as a result very little combat takes place over mines. Plarium go back and look at how poor the participation has been in any mine related event. They have become a non event.
Not sure what "players on the server are out of mines" means, but it seems like there has been a stalemate for quite awhile. A few stronger combines hold all the mines, and not even the minimun number needed to achieve level 20, the mines had to be shared to get to where they are. The existing mines are held too tighly to be taken by smaller combimes needing to hold them in order to level up thier headquarters. To me that sounds like the players have run out of mines on the server. But then, I have no idea what your analytics are looking at.
Grover I understand that Plarium is in business to make money and they have experience at doing just that. However, to make money on a sustainable basis they need to also give customers what they want or they will go elsewhere. Also Plarium should understand it is much easier to keep a customer than it is to go out and find a new one.
The problem is that the mines that are held now have that much defence in them that they can not be taken, because no one is going to loose billions of offence for little gain that a mine gives, So a lot more mines in Badlands would be a good thing, It would give more insentive for everyone to enjoy the game even more, the top combines need no more mines but the lower combines need something for sure.
Fire you are spot on, people have left our combine and the game because it has gotten so stale. Having more events to just click buttons is not keeping people interested in this game. I would rather stay here but I have asked people that have left, to let me know if they find a better game enviroment, at this point I would consider it.
At this point I just dare Plarium to add more mining centers, I tripple dog dare you guys to do that. I know you won't because it would screw up your little charts and graphs on how the game should unfold.
Commanders I agree that more mines are welcome. Do not worry as Devs are monitoring the games and servers frequently. My personal opinion is new mines might come in the near future so stay tuned please!!
Well 9 months later and still nothing, time to start thinking about quitting the game like everyone else is.
We do not want it either, Commander. We implement new features, make improvements and hold new events. We try to make the game interesting and exciting for our players.
Why dont you give the Players what they want, Highlands have way to many and we have had a hand full since the server started 6 years ago, !!!!
Any news yet ????
Thank you for reminding us, Commander.
I have been talking to the team about this question, and as was mentioned, when the analytics shows that the server is out of mines, we will add the new ones. As far as I understand, that's the reason why there was an extended response. However, I brought up this topic again, and the devs are investigating it.