Newbie question about starter pack [Archive]

Garaster

27.08.14, 15:33

I know the value of things are relative, but this pack really helps a player start the game much more easily or it just only a minor convenience ?

What exactly is inside it? Because there is zero description. I only see increase gems value (3500) but it have some others icons like a cube with an A/B/C ...dunno what that means (or even if that means something).

Thanks for your time reading this and maybe even providing an answer.

Nogbad

28.08.14, 17:12

Yes, they were pitched back when the game was quite a bit different. With the early levels now much easier, the price is probably too high for their real value nowadays.
Also a bit of a confusing term, as we also had "real" starter packs in the past.
These were purchased with real money, and contained a cd, booklet and voucher codes for in-game items and gems.
Been a few variants of these, the very first one was fantastic for the price, had the General Stronghelmet, a watermill, a silo some resources and gems. Sold out very quickly and sought after for ages after.
later variants struggled to match this, rather under-powered for the price, with perhaps the exception of the infamous "Premium Pack", which never made it to these servers ( Hard version was german only, although a download version was available for the Polish servers). This cost around 40 quid, but had the General Klotz (at that time very good), 2 copies of the Nords 2 adventure and other resources/buildings and of course gems. Released just as the End of the World event started, and gave a massive boost to the efforts where it was available. Expensive, but contained a lot.
Shame the idea hasn't been revisited, even a download version that would cost next to nothing to produce would surely work, so long as the contents were pitched right, like the original Starter and the Premium ones were.

Oh, and the quick link to launch the game that was included no longer works, broken link. :(