Intro:
Ever since the Christmas event, tons of additional Gold Coins are entering the game daily.
The consequence is that many items have risen severely, namely: Magic Beans and Granite as well as pretty much any tradable building from the Architect have risen over 100% - and the redemption value for 1 gem has risen from 7 coins to 20 coins within a mere 2 months (given the sales price of [improved] silos / jollies etc.)
Many Veteran players are no longer in need of coins for island upgrades, as coins are bountiful and 2-3 Fairytale adventures will fill your coffers so bountifully that coins become a non-issue. These players produce coins every day but will not remove any significant amount of coins from the game, so they actually cause inflation.
That said, a new player who wishes to make some progress in the game used to be able to spend €20 to upgrade maybe 20 buildings to lv4. With the current inflation, a mere €10 spendings will suffice to upgrade pretty much the entire island to level 4!
Short notice: New players willing to spend real money need to spend significantly less money to make significantly more progress and will - consequentially - get bored of the game very, very quickly.
It gets worsened by the fact that new players have neither a Gold Tower nor a lv5 Gold Smelter at their disposal, so they will realize that they start lagging severely behind the rest of the community when putting the same amount of time into the game as someone who's been around since last year.
Thus, new players become degraded to "second class".
This is as bad for Bluebyte as it is for the community as a whole.
Suggestion:
Before the inflation of coins goes through the roof, introduce a highly desirable coin sink which will make sure that there is a constant gold sink which the community will actually use.
Here are some options I could think of:
- Re-introduce the "Mysterious Architect Box" as a permanent feature (maybe replace Christmas tree with a Low Wall or so) and sell them at 5000 coins a piece.
- Gem pit buffs: Double production on the gem pit for 1 day - cost: 2000 coins.
- Medikits for 500 coins in the Black Market.
- General "instant travel": 1 general, 100 coins - general arrives with no delay.