I just had a glance at your city and noticed you have wasted quite a bit of population building manufactories that you are not boosted in. I'm not telling you how to play your game and I do not believe this to be "wrong", but I do believe it is a waste. I noticed you have a number of marble and steel manufactories, plus one plank manufactory. Ideally you should only be harvesting the goods you are boosted in as you get a considerable amount more than those you are not boosted in - then to trade your boosted goods with non boosted goods. You are in a fellowship with 24 other players, I cannot imagine trading would be an issue for you either.
Just a thought to help with your situation.
Thanks Da Twista.
I had no idea how things worked when I first started Elvenar 6 months ago. I just built what was offered to me in tier 1. By tier 2 and 3 goods I realized the economics of the game and only built boosted manufactories. I have not sold my tier 1 manufactories because I am a bit sentimental about the look of my village. Also it is a record of how my city was built. Instead I concentrated on upgrading my Golden Abyss, according to the rules and rewards that existed till yesterday. It was going very well for me and I was happy with the results.
I am hoping the organizers will see how unfair it was to apply the new rules retrospectively and that they will reset things so the new rules are only applied from yesterday onwards. That way people who relied on the GA for population according to the Elvenar rules will no longer be so severely penalized. Minus 764 people is ridiculous.
And yes I trade often to balance my goods, because, as you say, I get heaps of steel and not much marble and planks. The people in my fellowship cooperate with one another and some are friends. Trading is not a problem.
Wow, mine are level 2, it might be small consolation but if you carry onto into the next chapter and beyond, their effect will be very powerful. I know I am intending to level mine up now so I can enjoy their enhanced effect.
I can appreciate that losing that number of population is a body-blow though but long-term, your investment will pay off.
Thanks, Lizzie for your encouraging words. With minus so many people, I thought all was lost and it would take years if ever to catch up. I concentrated so hard on my Golden Abyss and I was really happy with the results. I sacrificed advancement on the tree for upgrades to the GA. Many hundreds of KPs to my GA. When the new rules appeared to take all that away I was very discouraged.
Wow, mine are level 2, it might be small consolation but if you carry onto into the next chapter and beyond, their effect will be very powerful. I know I am intending to level mine up now so I can enjoy their enhanced effect.
I can appreciate that losing that number of population is a body-blow though but long-term, your investment will pay off.
Thankyou for your encouraging words, Lizzie. When I saw my population so far in the minus, I thought all was lost and that it would take 'years' to catch up. I have concentrated most of my efforts on my Golden Abyss spending many hundreds of KPs upgrading for population. According to the rules that applied until yesterday, this was working very well. Now with the new rules sending me 764 people into the red it seemed to have turned into a disaster. Reading your response here, there might be light at the end of the tunnel. But it still looks like a very long tunnel.
I did write a thankyou for your response a while ago but it seems to have disappeared. This is the first time I have every written anything in a forum, so I may have made a mistake, sending it to you incorrectly. I was hoping that my missing population would be reinstated but that looks like pie in the sky now I have found out more about how things work. Thanks again, Chrisflutes.
(I think some residences must have upgraded)
