Treadable Gem Pit

[Ujku80]

Just an Idea.
At the moment Gem pit is not treadable and ofc it is because people need to use some real $$$ so this wonderful game keeps going on.
To be honest, even though I love this game (I hope I am not kicked away for what I am about to say) I have thought several times of buying a Gem Pit with real $$$ but I have not gone through with it. The reason is simple - My wife would kill me for spending money on a game and I value my life.

At the same time I notice that while a Gem pit is 20k Gems, 500 granite are about 1k gems. Now I would gladly give 10-15k Granite or even more for a Gem Pit to someone who would trade with me. This way I would get more from the game and keep my valuable life. at the same time the producers would make more $$$

Now i know that first thing that would come up against the idea is that people would start stacking gems and buying gem pits to trade for better deals ... well simple solution to that would be that only Gem pits purchased directly with real $$$ would be treadable. - I think even would bring more revenue (btw, if it does can i have 5% of the extra revenue)

Well, lets see what people think.
Have Fun
Ujku80

[Salem_Warrior_1]

wont work BB tryed to make gems tradable.. but some abused the offer and so BB took um off the menu

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[Developer]

wont work BB tryed to make gems tradable.. but some abused the offer and so BB took um off the menu
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If they could be gifted, there would be high scam rates. This happened not only when gems became available for gifting, but also when premiums were once 'giftable'.

If they are directly tradable, people could easily take advantage of this feature. You might say just because they could, it doesn't necessarily mean they would. But we all know people 'would do it', especially since there's a limit to the number of gem pits that each players can buy (Yes, people can take advantage through the limit, just like limited items during events e.g. watermills in Easter Event).

[Ujku80]

on trade chest 500 granite - 995 gems

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[Salem_Warrior_1]

babababa trade gems for granite in merchent plsss.. not a tube of glue,
10x price of trade

[Wreckless-]

It is possible to save the gems you get from doing the quests, and the weekly gems and get your first gempit without paying BB any $$$.
It would take you quite some time however.
Some people don't want to pay real money for a "free" game, but that's like sitting in the park and looking jealously at everybody who's licking an ice cone.
The sitting in the park part is free. But sitting in the park, licking an ice cone is more fun.
That doesn't mean the ice cone should be free. And it certainly doesn't mean that I should pay for your ice cone.
I would if you were my gf however! ;)

[SmurfAsH]

it is possible to save the gems you get from doing the quests, and the weekly gems and get your first gempit without paying bb any $$$.
It would take you quite some time however.
Some people don't want to pay real money for a "free" game, but that's like sitting in the park and looking jealously at everybody who's licking an ice cone.
The sitting in the park part is free. But sitting in the park, licking an ice cone is more fun.
That doesn't mean the ice cone should be free. And it certainly doesn't mean that i should pay for your ice cone.
I would if you were my gf however! ;)
:D
Totally agree..
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[EctoRune]

The reason BB closed down the gem gift had nothing to do with scams. There are lots of opportunities to scam people in the game still, and it has never seemed like that big of a problem anyway. The real problem was that people could use the gem gift to circumvent the limit on gem pits on one account.

Account 1 has a bunch of gems and gem pits. Instead of using the gems to buy stuff, A1 sends the gems to A2. A2 buys a bunch of gem pits, then sends the gems back to A1 as they come in.

Since a gem pit doubles your gems, one player's number of gems could balloon completely out of proportion over the course of a couple of years. This would basically render gems worthless. Clearly, BB can't allow their real money currency to devalue to such an extent, so the gem gifts have to go. The only weird part is that they didn't realise this when they first decided to put in the gem gift.

The idea of a tradeable gem pit runs into the same issue, unfortunately.

[fishslice]

If I could trade a gem pit I would be calculating something along the lines of....

Cost of 1 gem (when you consider giftable items and as an approximate guide) = 10coins
20k gems in a gem pit multiplied by roughly 10 coins each = 200k coins
Double it as the buyer will receive 40k gems = 400k coins
Discount it as the user will take 12 months to receive the gems = 250k coins
Now consider the added value as they will be able to buy non giftable items, lets say 1.5X original value = 375k coins

So would I sell a gem pit for 375k coins? No but I would consider buying a few at a friendly discount of 300k coins or surprise surprise 100k granite :eek:

fish

[Salem_Warrior_1]

it was the reason BB gave us for taken um off the game
im not sure either myself..but as said