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 player speaking, I say that arena isn't bad at all if the coalition has a strategy. .Here is a quick resume about Arena event                               1.We can choose lower guardians with the drop-down menu.if you open your guardians' menu and send them to challengers this type of guardian will get locked. 

2. there are milestones rings to get a specific reward ( every 5 levels ). the player has to win at least 1 challenge in order to win the specific reward. if you miss 1 milestone you can have a try to the higher. 

3. you can check if you are qualified to get the reward of the specific milestone ring if you check your battle reports.                                                 4. there are 3 big   milestones that all who won at least 1 challenger will be qualified to get the specific rewards which have an exclamation mark . Those big milestones are 30 level 50 level and 100 level, of course, the Coalition has to reach those specific milestones levels. 2 Assassins and 10 ponies isn't a bad reward and they are reachable for active coalitions.

5. every player can check what rewards will receive if he/she opens the reward menu .What is at the left side  are   OUR rewards which we will receive AFTER the Arena event will end

All the rewards which are at the right side of the window are the unclaimed rewards meaning some of our teammates or us didn't make to get the deeds and what our coalition will get  in total                                                                                                                     6.challenegers guardians might isn't so big reward but  we getting them for free and we can use them to upgrade our  regular  guardians so we save energy                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 this feature is new let's give it a chance  and we can help each other with tips .I'm looking forward for your tips 

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.

I think Plarium has trouble understanding that their revenue does not grow by selling more stuff to existing players but by bringing in more players.  Adding more and more obnoxious features that you have to pay for just dilutes the game and - at best - shifts player spending from one package to another... Most coiners have a budget for this game and it's not going to change because there are more options on where to spend that money. 

At the core this game needs to be more entertaining and fun to play so more players join and stay.  I feel the game has become boring and many new features are killing the dynamics.  There are less wars, less raids, less conflict, less excitement.  Many players have become static and complacent. 

Hello Spartans ! Nightwatch, we can report all the bugs we facing to the Bug sector .I can assure you  that the administration read the reports for bugs.Sometimes the bugs are general meaning all players have them and those are nasty bugs  and need  general maintenance to fix them  other bugs are limited and only few players have them  other bugs are only in our city and other bugs are because our end doesn't work ok meaning internet speed active VPN etc so the best way is  players  to report the  bug using the right channels so they will get the best help and guidance.  

                                                                 dear  Mikalosos, Plarium has specialists who monitor game activity. I'm sure that they will check arena activity as well. I play on Facebook and it seems that we like arena as there is already a coalition which is  on 80 level.                                                  I like very much your suggestion as it will help players to have a go for the holy bond  which is unreachable for now even for  teams full of heavy coiners .                                                                                                                                                                               As for new features, I think they  promote the activity as a lot of players have reached their goals and need something new to investigate. Time will tell if arena is a good  addition or not .                                                                                                                                                                             New players  have to reach a certain level to be able to get the new features so they have time to manage to catch up  the rest players .New players cannot manage  to face the big levels who raid them and kill their small army and that's the main reason that new player quit playing and not the new features                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Please keep posting your thoughts as it is always a pleasure to read them.I will forward your suggestion for< unlock the Guardians every 24h hours >

Katrina - i can assure you that your beta testers and folks that used to report bugs will not use your bug reporting system.

It is flawed.

The bug reporting system was moved to the forums - where you have already banned your best assistance providers

Better still - your system for appealing bans given to people that were wrongly banned is to have them send a personal message the community manager - and i am sure you know that they told us they do not check their messages

they are far to busy to check their mail

( you have one community manager looking after all forums across all games )

As for your new players that need to catch up ... that is impossible.

They need glory points to unlock most of the features of the game - and they can only get glory points by participating in pvp tourneys or joining a coalition that is of higher tier and earning large rewards in coalition clash events

They can not fight against other players with their light and heavy troops that are not upgraded in any real way - so they will not earn glory points

No G.P. means no galley capacity to effect trades, no  phalanx or higher units, no Elysium city or elysium units, no scrolls of wisdom to improve their situation - this is the bigger problem.  It has been brought to the attention of the forums many times.  Do not pretend that they care or will do anything about this. 

As for guardians - they have choked the emerald rewards back hard enough that they will never have higher level guardians so they can compete and grow - they made sure of this

We built our guardians for free (or earned an emerald profit) and new players blocked from growing yet again.

Get this through your head NO NEW PLAYERS MEANS NO FUTURE FOR SPARTA !!!!!!

stop telling us things that are not true

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. 

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. 

A Player in Order to make 30 hits in Arena must spend 1460 emeralds to unblock the 15 Guardians if has all the types. Plarium reduced the Emeralds Bonus to 50% so no emeralds profit when playing Guardians. The only way to unblock Guardians for Arena is to buy emeralds Packets.

No Coalition will reach ring 100 in the next Years if the Arena Mechanics don’t change.

To Reach Ring 100 a Coalition must win 20*27=540 Challengers of power of 13866 to 31948 using Grade V guardians. For the last 20 Rings.

One Guardian Grade V max power is 12550.

One enlighten Guardian Grade V max power is 34943.

The best scenario is 540 max power Grade V enlighten Guardians and the worst is more than 1080 simple max power Guardians Grade V as to win Challengers you need two to three guardian per fight.

NORDMANN at server 1 reach Rings 87 this means that win 189 to 195 Challengers {(7*27 to (8*27) -1} using Grade V guardians and needs 351 to 344 at least more Grade V enlighten guardians or more than 900 simple Grade V to reach Rings 100.

If  NORDMANN players buy more than 1500 holy bonds maybe be able in the next Arena to reach Rings 100 

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.

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. 

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. 

i thought Morteeee did it.what ever i say you see it as braking some 3.11. rule,so i wont participate on forum anymore!

look,my number is bigger then yours:

https://prnt.sc/pza1k3

Tonaya

for Tonaya

You're leaving the forum? I don't believe it.

What do you have more days of connection in a row ? Yes friend a great achievement but it is almost a matter of luck that you did not fail any day the connection.

As the vast majority of things in this game will always have the advantage of large coalitions and visa, the "normal" to make you want.

Who can have so many guardians of that beautiful orange color ? the visas, the rest of us already know how far we can go  (I don't have any lol).

Que dejas el foro ? no me lo creo.

Que tienes mas numero de dias de conexion seguidos ? Si amigo un gran logro pero es casi cuestion de suerte que no te fallara ningun dia la conexion.

Como la inmensa mayoria de las cosas de este juego siempre tendran ventaja las coaliciones grandes y los visa, los "normales" a ponerle ganas.

Quien puede tener tantos guardianes de ese color naranja tan bonito ? los visa, los demas ya sabemos hasta donde podemos llegar ( yo no tengo ninguno lol ).

No players can afford to upgrade their guardians now that they have choked the emerald rewards to the point that they produce a negative gain - let alone spend emeralds to participate in the arena event.

Guardian  Arena Event - why do my low level guardians not appear for this event?  I have worked hard on these over the last week or so, and yet only two out of the many Grade I & II guardians i have worked on have shown so far.  I tried locking all the high level guardians, but that makes no difference.

Hi Bernice