Aww come one everyone, you really do not see what is behind this?
As it was so many cities did not need to buy Helios due to the assassin protection given from the Strategist boosting the Mams. You have all bought so many assassins and relied on them for so long that Plarium give them away by the handful to players now. Assassins are the first, and only for many, choice of attack.
However, the cost of Helios has increased. Now it is 40% increase in some countries but 50% in UK. All cost increases were "attributed" to exchange rates which is a worthless excuse as Euro price to a Euro based company increasing by 40% due to the Euro : Euro exchange rate change is laughable. So even taking Plarium moving the profits to AUD to parent company that E/R did not change by 40 to 50%.
So the Elysians changes are to try force players, previously safe under their Mams and Guardian, to now pay the inflated price for Helios, it is obvious, as Helios sales will have fallen dramatically as soon as we could defend efficiently against assassins without buying Helios.
Now this used to be an MMOWSG but is now a tournament based game which is a form of gambling and the owners of Plarium are experts in gambling so know how to load things into their favour.
With the changes now implemented Plarium will be expecting a huge upsurge in sales of Helios whilst they continue to give away assassins for free and the upsurge will be at the new prices, there is a reason we had the price increase prior to the changes, think about it.
Helios went from £12 to £18 in the UK. No idea of other currency prices but keep this as the example. 10k players buy that 52 times per year to protect their cities from assassins, previously safe as noted above, which are given away in droves plus the massive buying of them. That extra £6 is a HUGE amount of extra money on top of what we have already been ripped off for.
The changes will also drive up the sales of assassins exponentially.