Anyone else waste a ton of gold securing top 10?

[reesebutton]

Then realize that you're using too much common sense

unfortunately, common sense isn't common in the forum

[nvbealone]

now many would feel like quitting but they wont cause they spent too much. all will be calm again in another 2 days.

[Swedevil]

BigMoney - we had 27 million IP 2 hours before they announced the 6 hour extension. Because an audible was called, we gave up and started handing out our IP as if it were candy on Halloween. Thus dropping us in to top 15 when they announced once again that we would be ending on time.
So we had more IP 20 hours before war end then was needed for top 10, but gave up!

[bald zeemer]

Whoever makes these decisions at GREE HQ needs to be removed because they clearly do not have any business sense.

The decision-making is one side, but since this idea was forum-generated, and was largely supported on the forum at the time (albeit opposed by BM at the time, who from memory was more or less the only one against it, for the exact reasons most are against it now).

I find it odd that the people who literally came up with the idea won't come out and defend it now that it is a "gree screwup" rather than "gree listening to ideas that happen to be stupid".

YOU are the ones that ruined the game by letting GREE make this a MONEY game!!

Yes, it was so much better when this game was developed and run by charities.

Gree did this for reasons other than some vague "player feedback." There was a profit aspect to it. Always follow the money.

So the fact that this exact idea was raised (and supported) in a thread the moderators were partaking in, discussing better ways to resolve the issues (rather than the war extension) and within hours the war extension had been revoked and then this implemented was a lucky break for Gree?

If the tier change was implemented when the idea was floated within the apology and retraction of battle extension time, the 3 hours subsequently left would have revealed 12th place more than several million IP behind 10th. Therefore spending would have all but ceased by those who were in the legitimate top 10 until a smaller buffer had been reached by those in 12th.

There you go, profiteering by not releasing tier change at the same time as extension retraction.

If Gree announced it with 3 hours to go that would have meant they read an idea on the forum and immediately implemented it. Since the problem is that they read an idea on the forum and didn't really analyse it fully, I don't think earlier adoption of ideas is really the answer.

BigMoney - we had 27 million IP 2 hours before they announced the 6 hour extension. Because an audible was called, we gave up and started handing out our IP as if it were candy on Halloween. Thus dropping us in to top 15 when they announced once again that we would be ending on time.
So we had more IP 20 hours before war end then was needed for top 10, but gave up!

Congratulations. That makes less sense than any other post ever posted on this forum. Not at all an easy achievement.

[Swedevil]

Congratulations. That makes less sense than any other post ever posted on this forum. Not at all an easy achievement.

It was a stab at another conversation being had where someone is claiming that they were only 500k behind top 10 at the time Gree announced the extension and thus decided they would not pursue top 10 anymore. The problem with this was that their ending amount was more then 500k off of what top 10 had 2 hours PRIOR to the extension being announced. Which clearly shows that somehow they were able to travel back in time and give away some of their IP allowing them to meet said statement.

Thanks though, I truly appreciate your time in reading and replying to my message as if you followed the whole thing. #smugmuch

[bald zeemer]

Sorry mate. Difficulties in picking up tone in the written word and all.

[Tomatoneverdie]

This must be the "Player Feedback" Gree referred to in their response to my email....sarc/

[DenZ1]

Why top 10, 50, 75 and 100 was extended and top 3 was not?
Extend top 3 as well.

[bald zeemer]

Your solution to a bad idea is to make sure the damage is as widespread as possible?

Genius.

[DenZ1]

Stupid thing shouldnt have been done in the first place.
But if it applies, it should be unilateral. Nothing genius here.

[bald zeemer]

All the other tiers were competitive. There was no competition between 1, 2 & 3, so including those tiers in this would be doing so merely to extend the misery.

I assume you were in the 4th placed team, and are more or less just begging for a 10% mafia attack mod.

[Brendan]

We were 23rd going into the final hour so had a huge final battle, eventually finishing 15th. If we'd known that the 30th placed team was getting the same prize we could have relaxed and just put some free hits in as we finished 3.5 million ip ahead of them. In fact we could have relaxed the whole last day.

Are there any lawyers out there, surely this is a kind of fraud to make people buy more gold than they need to?

[DenZ1]

In your dreams man. No one is begging anyone here. Since they won't refund the gold spent for keeping it top 10 and won't take 11th and 12th prizes back its next logical solution, albeit it won't be very fair. And for the info, top 4-10 were so close it kinda applies to all.of them.

[Tomatoneverdie]

Give +5% mafia atk to Team #4-10, see? Solve it for you....

[BigMoney]

All the other tiers were competitive. There was no competition between 1, 2 & 3, so including those tiers in this would be doing so merely to extend the misery.

I assume you were in the 4th placed team, and are more or less just begging for a 10% mafia attack mod.

To be fair, there was no competition between the Top 10 teams and 12th place either:

1 FIGHT CLUB 44095157
2 Silent Assassins 37085125
3 Rogues Gallery 28567139
HTC Blue 23467693
Don't Fark Around 23447799
COLD Karma Mafia 23428618
Solemn Carnage 23323740
FIGHT CLUB II 23293782
Silent Assassins 2 23238782
10 Rogues Alliance 23162485
11 Original Gangster Killaz 22385592
12 Textbook killers 16293274

I would much rather 11th and 12th place not have received the Top 10 prize at all, but GREE will never take away anyone's prizes. I could also at least stomach 11th place getting Top 10 prizes with 22.3 mil IP.