The current Persian Positions tournament is certainly a disappointment: no drachma rewards, no GPs, no boosts, no sketches (obviously), one key, a few heavy infantry and a handful of resources. I fail to see the "epic" part. :-)

Diomedes said:

The current Persian Positions tournament is certainly a disappointment: no drachma rewards, no GPs, no boosts, no sketches (obviously), one key, a few heavy infantry and a handful of resources. I fail to see the "epic" part. :-)

Epic label doesn't mean that the rewards are better than the ones in the ordinary Tournament. It means that you will need to earn more points to receive the prize. 

Alyona Kolomiitseva said:

Diomedes said:

The current Persian Positions tournament is certainly a disappointment: no drachma rewards, no GPs, no boosts, no sketches (obviously), one key, a few heavy infantry and a handful of resources. I fail to see the "epic" part. :-)

Epic label doesn't mean that the rewards are better than the ones in the ordinary Tournament. It means that you will need to earn more points to receive the prize. 

Also, we launch many different Tournaments daily. You always have an opportunity to choose the one you like the most. And don't forget that Tournaments award you for your everyday activity, they aren't the main reason to play the game.

Thank you for your response. I was simply commenting on my impression that this tournament has particularly miserly rewards :-).  After a year in Sparta I am of course well aware that it is one tournament among many, that it is my choice which tournaments I select to play and that gameplay includes many other options and s not limited to tournaments. Nowhere did I dispute, or even address, any of this, but ...

... I stand by my story: This is a tournament with paltry rewards. :-)

Alyona Kolomiitseva said:

Diomedes said:

The current Persian Positions tournament is certainly a disappointment: no drachma rewards, no GPs, no boosts, no sketches (obviously), one key, a few heavy infantry and a handful of resources. I fail to see the "epic" part. :-)

Epic label doesn't mean that the rewards are better than the ones in the ordinary Tournament. It means that you will need to earn more points to receive the prize. 

Also, we launch many different Tournaments daily. You always have an opportunity to choose the one you like the most. And don't forget that Tournaments award you for your everyday activity, they aren't the main reason to play the game.

Alyone, would you like to explain why PvP (and maybe other) tourney rewards were heavily reduced? As I stated: it is disheartening and reduces the incentive to engage in PvP battles. 

Your thoughts?

We don't want our players to consider Tournaments as the only reason of your gameplay. As I said before, it's just an addition, a bonus, nothing more. 

been there,try'd everything,nothing helps,nice word dont open iron door here

Tonaya said:

been there,try'd everything,nothing helps,nice word dont open iron door here

Tonaya

Hi Tonaya!

Xena said:

Tonaya said:

been there,try'd everything,nothing helps,nice word dont open iron door here

Tonaya

Hi Tonaya!

Long time no see! Welcome back! 

you are funny Xena :)

i agree as well

Drag-Theseus said:

Guys..I remember on start when there was no tournaments .. I started playing Stormfall 01.01.2013 and I can remember old days.. there were no tournaments, only reward were EXP points, so if you look that and this.. at least there are some rewards , not that big but at least they are here..

Was before my time here. I do wonder how, without tournaments, you were able to collect sketches, or earn drachmas to buy sketches because, except for tourneys, the only way to acquire them is by buying yourself to the top with real money (I'm disregarding the odd drachma one might receive for achievements or allegiance lecels since they don't amount to much).

Diomedes said:

Was before my time here. I do wonder how, without tournaments, you were able to collect sketches, or earn drachmas to buy sketches because, except for tourneys, the only way to acquire them is by buying yourself to the top with real money (I'm disregarding the odd drachma one might receive for achievements or allegiance lecels since they don't amount to much).

Cheers Dio

Well sketches were added much lately actually. They didn't exist from the beginning of the game..And in the beginning there were colonies not emporia. So if you had made a name for youself in your neighbourhood like many did you collected drachmas really easily. Holding a Drachma Vault with one jav and gaining 6, 12 or 20 drachmas per hour was really awesome! I loved colonies cause I made quite some drachmas with them! Not to mention the funerals on other peoples' armies!!! 

The truth is you get drachs much harder now but there are many coalition tournaments where you can win many drachmas if there is a team effort! And ofc the 2.2 PVP tournament which gives you 1.056 drachmas with 10K PVP points...It's really worth it!

Drag-Theseus said:

Btw, maybe there are not many GPs points but I see Sketches more often now

I'm not sure if sketch rewards are more common, difficult to say. When I do see them they are included in "Development Race" tournaments which are difficult to max out.  

Either one scores with agreements, but since many of these tourneys are only 1d or 2d duration, one needs to spend quite few boosts to complete long running agreements before the tourney ends; or one scores development points by completing building upgrades, and trouble with that is that it requires sketches. So scoring 50 or 60 sketches in a Dev tourney will cost 120 to 240 sketches for the building and probably 24h to 48h of boosts.

And with no more than one Dev tourney in 2 to 3 weeks, it'll take 6 weeks if not more to get the sketches for a single level 21 or 22 building upgrade. In any case, I find it discouraging contemplating reaching levels 23 and 24 for major buildings no sooner than 2018.

I'm not sure if sketch rewards are more common, difficult to say. When I do see them they are included in "Development Race" tournaments which are difficult to max out.  

Either one scores with agreements, but since many of these tourneys are only 1d or 2d duration, one needs to spend quite few boosts to complete long running agreements before the tourney ends; or one scores development points by completing building upgrades, and trouble with that is that it requires sketches. So scoring 50 or 60 sketches in a Dev tourney will cost 120 to 240 sketches for the building and probably 24h to 48h of boosts.

And with no more than one Dev tourney in 2 to 3 weeks, it'll take 6 weeks if not more to get the sketches for a single level 21 or 22 building upgrade. In any case, I find it discouraging contemplating reaching levels 23 and 24 for major buildings no sooner than 2018.

no one is player like me,Tonaya is special :P

thnx,make me happy,tell who is better:Alyona or Tonaya ?

http://prntscr.com/e4ojyi

Tonaya 

Xena said:

Tonaya said:

no one is player like me,Tonaya is special :P

thnx,make me happy,tell who is better:Alyona or Tonaya ?

http://prntscr.com/e4ojyi

Tonaya 

Pretty nice reward you got there Tonaya! Hope you waste those troops wisely! 

Xena,if you give me your coordinates,you can see them better 8)

Alyona Kolomiitseva said:

Tonaya said:

no one is player like me,Tonaya is special :P

thnx,make me happy,tell who is better:Alyona or Tonaya ?

http://prntscr.com/e4ojyi

Tonaya 

Nice reward! Maybe you should share it in some BG-related thread to show your results to other players? :) Let's see if someone can beat your reward 

simple: 500 000 drachmas  8)

Alyona Kolomiitseva said:

Tonaya said:

it is easy to negotiate with Tonaya,Alyona,name your price?

Tonaya 

That's ok, Tonaya. You can keep it :)

to keep what?i didnt got anything from plarium

Xena said:

Tonaya said:

no one is player like me,Tonaya is special :P

thnx,make me happy,tell who is better:Alyona or Tonaya ?

http://prntscr.com/e4ojyi

Tonaya 

Pretty nice reward you got there Tonaya! Hope you waste those troops wisely! 

Xena,if you give me your coordinates,you can see them better 8)

Tonaya