Hi Grim

Thx Leo

hi Nancy

Mikalosos is essentially correct.

Below is a list showing 'Coalition Reward'

I did not receive this COA Reward nor any part of it to the best of my knowledge.

So my question remains - what do we as players have to do to earn the COA reward or part thereof?

Or is it complete fakery as Mikalosos states?

Hi

I have been tasked with explaining to my COA members the how to and rewards of the COA Arena.

The explanations given by Nancy in earlier posts do not gel with my actual experience of participating in the Arena.

I am very interested in hearing your reply to Grim's question posted just above which I note has been outstanding for 3 days now.

Can you please answer the question?

Agesofman

hi Nancy

Mikalosos is essentially correct.

Below is a list showing 'Coalition Reward'

I did not receive this COA Reward nor any part of it to the best of my knowledge.

So my question remains - what do we as players have to do to earn the COA reward or part thereof?

Or is it complete fakery as Mikalosos states?

Did you hear that thud?  That was Plarium's Arena event and Guardian Autoplay features hitting the bottom of the dumpster.

How many players are going to spent $9.95 to buy 7 days worth of Guardian auto-play?

How many coalition players are even bothering with the Arena event after seeing the garbage rewards they yielded last time?

Our coalition struggled to reach ring 26 in the last event.  What did it earn us? A bunch of our players even used emeralds to unblock Guardians... to get a few more rings cleared only to open the Plarium reward box and find it full of... NOTHING.

A handful of absolutely worthless "adventurers" and bogus basic coalition chests...

Fool me once shame on you... fool me twice shame on me.  Our coalition is now stalled on ring 6 as most of our players have figured that it's not worth even using 15 energy in this event.

Activity levels in the game are dropping dramatically, coalition chat is dead, practically no sieges being raided any more, very few attacks on our coalition cities.

Totally agree. 

And given that with current emeralds rewards still being less than you earn for levelling up - anyone who is silly enough to buy the conquest item will quickly run out of emeralds and recharges and not be able to use the auto feature - ummm I wonder how many repeat buys that will generate. 

Annoyed your customer base and shot yourself in the foot at the same time Plarium - good one!

And it's up to Plarium to decide if they want to retain their customers or see them all leave because they spend all their time focusing on generating more revenue rather than improving the game... but it's not mandatory for the customers to continue to spend their money on a game that's less and less interesting to play.

Just stating the obvious... does that qualify me for a job as Plarium forum moderator?

As a coalition ranked around 120 and with pretty high participation rate in most events we achieved only ring 26 in the last arena event despite most of our top players spending emeralds to unblock 5-10 extra Guardians each and multiple messages encouraging everyone to join in.

We didn't even reach the ring 30 milestone award - which BTW is worth practically nothing since assassins are no longer an effective weapon.  The rewards we got turned out to be totally empty... using every adventurer I got to upgrade guardians I got the equivalent of 20-25 warlord battles in XP... what you de facto can buy with 3 energy recharges.  Why even create these new useless dudes instead of giving out a couple of energy recharges as rewards?

The only reward worth having in the entire event is the Holy Bond given out at ring 100 which even the mighty Nordmann coalition could not reach.  Since the only way to improve the performance in the arena tournament is to get higher participation rate and you can't motivate your members to participate when there is no real rewards to win... this entire feature is a non-starter.

As I stated above our participation rate between the first and second event has dropped by 70%. While almost all our players have been online since this round started only 1-in-5 has bothered participating in the arena.  This should send a clear message to Plarium that this isn't working. In the first event Nordmann achieved ring 80 this time the top coalition is stalled at level 53. 

You ask us to "give it a chance". I think we gave it our best shot the first time and since there is really no strategy involved we now know what to expect hence the huge drop in participation. What more is there to talk about?

I can offer the following suggestions to revive this wreckage of a feature:

1. Allow the adventurers to be used as "enlightenment" substitute for any Guardian of same grade.

2. Offer real rewards at realistic levels.  Right now only top 20 coalitions can even hope to achieve anything of significance.

3. Unblock all Guardians every 24 hours to keep players involved... 7 days is unnecessarily long since all active players will have used up all their Guardians in the first 24 hours.  After that only a few additional points will trickle in.  Everybody just sits around waiting for the stupid thing to end.

I thought the addition of the Elysian city couldn't be topped as a dumb feature... but this one is actually getting close to taking the top spot.

jeff hellman said:

Play it for what it is, when you come online 1 hit if your on next ring (5 stages) to get the reward and then move away and do something more productive, dont whatever you do spend any emeralds. Until Plarium increase the rewards and reduce the attainment levels this tournament is dead before it even started. They had their pound of flesh first time round, but nobody is fooled this time round.

i really wonder  why they keep adding new stuff all the time when  it take them 2-3 years to fix  basics bugs that players been complaining for ages.

and the fact that no coa in any of the facebook and plarium servers, NONE, got close to 100 (and fb servers ahd guardians for over a year longer than plarium.com ones), does not ring any bells to plarium, that maybe they have to adjust it as they did in stormfall? 

Fortuna T.I.A. said:

and the fact that no coa in any of the facebook and plarium servers, NONE, got close to 100 (and fb servers ahd guardians for over a year longer than plarium.com ones), does not ring any bells to plarium, that maybe they have to adjust it as they did in stormfall? 

just a though, hope i am not banned again for no reason for stating the obvious

welcome back Fortuna and welcome to the club of banned players :)

Tonaya

It's a matter of time for a COA to reach the highest levels in the Arena Event . 

Practice makes perfect, and I'm pretty sure that with good tactics a Coalition can show hight results in this event soon. 

P.S. Tonaya, I edited your last comment because it violated the Forum rules, 3.11. Please keep the correspondence on the forum in according with the rules. 

Nancy said:

It's a matter of time for a COA to reach the highest levels in the Arena Event . 

Practice makes perfect, and I'm pretty sure that with good tactics a Coalition can show hight results in this event soon. 

what tactic? buying holy bonds like mad and pray for a golden one? what's the strategy there?  more credit cards? 

@Moortee how many years in facebook had been the guardians? year and a half longer than in plarium.com, isnt it?, and no one in any facebook server passed of 85, am i wrong?

nancy with all respect, please dont answer to us with that kind of answers, you are offending us, showing lack of knowledge of the game, event and its mechanics.

pd nothing i say in this post, break the rules of the forum.