Hi there, I started playing empyrion a couple of days ago with some friends. We picked this server because it was the highest pop one and had no idea of rules or extra features obviously, so after awhile and thanks to your helpfull community we got started off and directed to this site.
And here’s where my concerns start, The handouts u give was already on the edge for me TBH. the AM and fa:supply might be helpfull in alot of ways but it’s not like it’s hard to gather resources so not entirely sure why they are needed…
and then i found the donation page…
is this actually for real? How on earth did u guys think it was okay to give these kinda perks to donators making them become immune to wipes pretty much. at 70m credits you can max out ur AM and OCD straight away, pay abit more and you get to keep all of ur mats in the factory. meaning you could farm urself to alot of crazy things right before the wipe (which big clans will do effortless with all the handouts u give) and then completely annihilate anyone who enters the planet.
just to give an example: our group could get 15+ ppl big, if we all start donating to become immune to wipe, we can deck out the entire galaxy on day 1 or at least the planets we get access too for our faction. Now i know there is a 7 base max per faction rule but there’s some very easy ways around it obviously if u split up the group in different factions and then just ally with eachother. We could singlehandedly ruin your entire server if we had bad intentions. If the game grows more popular those kind of ppl will come around with their credit card ready. i feel like there is plenty of other ways to give special perks to donators without giving them so much advantage.
This is too much for me and my friends once i inform them, and if i got this completely wrong please enlighten me. Because i’m really enjoying this game and server so far but we are quite competitive, and we don’t deal well with pay to win situations like these. And they most definatly are btw, you might have convinced yourself it’s not but if u want this truly to be the best server (which it seems to be btw) you need to get rid off that.
Sorry for the spelling, english is not my first language. I also hope this doesnt turn into a flame war, i just wanted to express my concerns for the good of your server i feel. You guys are doing an amazing job with it i feel and most deffo deserve money for your work and effort but the way you handled it is wrong on many levels if u want it to be somewhat competitive PVP.
Greetings,
Tompos