REMOVE THE TURNS DONATION

[FTP]

Sir Emi you realy should drop the turn donation for every mission I do i already get money reward and everyone aboves me gets much mroe for every mission. And you can do 266 missions with a 5 dollar donation. This is just sick. Top 10 player buying donation from lower ppl as for a lower ranked person 500 bill is very much while the top gets that in a few missions. First I thoughed lets limited to liek 75 turns. But even that wont work. This donation is way to good for the top. Drop it entirely.

[Soppe]

i agree on that one =)

[Hellsword]

wel emi turn donations are way to powerful atm, with 500 turns to a dollar. A freind donated 5$ for me, nd with that 5$ i got enough money to upgrade 2 times, and made about 70trillion, at least. Som1 who donated 50 $ would get 40.000 turns, and could easily go to 2x my power... something along the lines of 100 turns to the dollar would be much better, and if a person wanted to rise that bad, then theyd end up donating more. Turn donations are better then credits, but they are way too much better at teh moment... now i can either donate 5$ and make about 150billion... or donate for turns and with 800+ billion a mission i would make alot iwth 4000 turns lol... around 100 trillion most likely, if not more. Just somethin to consider changin

sent that to emi, and he replied:
e(#1)
2006-08-24 04:34:55
Re: turn donations

I will see what I can do, thanks.

Sir Emi
so hopefully something will be done

[UberPWNZ0R]

Donates keep game up, so..
If it will be like 75-100turns/1$ donations will drop. Its simple, if you donate you are good, as in every game. Deal with that
Emi need vacation More turns = more vacation
It reminds me some other mmorg, where people on free account were a lot more weak, than does on paid. Thats it.
Some spend time on game, others on job
btw

[Hellsword]

uberpwnzor thats the thing, this game is relatively fair to people who dont donate i havent put a dolalr into the game yet lol...

[ars68]

except what is better? to go with how every other game is? or try to make it even better?  people under the age to really hold a job already has to wait to do everything else, now you say they ahve to wait to get a job, before they can truly be good at any game?  what twisted view is that?  sure sir E needs money to run the game, but no one is going to support a game that runs poorly.  people should (and I have seen this happen many MANY times) donate because they want to support a great game they feel deserves it.  of course you should be fair in allowing them some extra benefits for their generosity, but making it where people HAVE to donate, just to get further in the game, is just wrong.  to do that, you may as well say:
Space odyssey:
shareware version playable.  donate 20$ for whole thing.

I have already quit many games, and they will never see my money when I get it, simply because they don't even try to make the free to play members even a challenge to the paying people.  some games it is literally almost like:
paying person: oh, you can have everything.  all the way up to huge planet sized deathstars with multi-dimensional grav cannons.

non-paying person: you get...  a stick.  and a wooden sheild.  if you play long enough, you may be able to get a bow to, but that's about it.  you'll have to pay to actually use the 10 billion things you see otehrs use daily.

that's not how to get people to donate.  that's how to drive people away, and at that point you may as well make it offically pay to play only, because the paying people are the only ones that will ever actually be able to play the games, anyway.  not some diluted, crushed, messed up version that let's you not even do half the stuff others can.

Tinywarz is perfect example.
in there, the gap between paying and non-paying people, is so huge, that I took a 10-20 unit army, all very high up compared to what I could have altogether...
and got completely blown away in like 5 turns by about 3 of the paying persons units.
I mean, the majority of his army just sat there watching, didn't even see them do a thing.  probably laughing at how weak my best units I could possibly get were.

[Hellsword]

yeah, i dont play games like that, but i started SO and liked it, and over the time ive been here thoguh i havent donated anything directly, ive brought in 14 people, some of which have boguht gold accounts / doanted, and have a gold account myself. if the game was where you donate 20$ no oen can ever beat you i never woulda stayed more hten a day...

[Lammalord]

take it off!! for what i can see even me, and hells look how far ahead we are?!?!

and to think i only have 5$ donated and i got this huge lead 5$!!!

[Hellsword]

yeah thisis without donating how far ahead me and lamma are... well directly anyways, i did get a few k turns from som1 else i nexchange from credits, but i was just trying to prove a point to emi since i already had a large lead over lammalord...

[Lammalord]

the donations are out of balance, for exsample its like som1 going to a car dealership, and donating 100$, and then getting a benfit of a car for the donation..
when the benfit should be more like the seat covers or something

Dontaion is out of balance TAKE IT OUT EMI


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emi, why dont you just go and edit the sopport infomation right know, and take that one small detail out of it, this donation for turns is outragous

and that red one, it says a couple, not an entire 2-3 days worth of help..

[Lightseeker_Eu]

This whole situation is turning into a battle of the deep pockets

[Lammalord]

yes, its getting to the point to whoever has the most money gets first...

[Hellsword]

yup