My FS is very active, and I might say, happy. We are 25 members and may of us would love to get the gold medal. We do get silver. Unfortunately because many end up using diamonds, not all want to go to the top, thus we dont get a gold medal. Could you change the requirements for the gold medal? Lets say if 75%-85% reached the top instead of 25 players?
The cost of map 3 is way too high.
As it stands, spire is becoming the most hated feature (it is my opinion). Not every player can do all maps, it is impossible to get gold if one or two players do not participate (in practice not in theory) and the cost/rewards ratio is rather very poor.
Now, with the current spire requirements, if FS wants to go for gold, they should not accept small players at all (it is related to another topic, e.g. making this game more appealing to small/newer players).
The first 2 stages should not cost any diamonds at worst 25 diamonds at the final boss of the second stage.
If you fail the first time, retreat and try again.
The 3rd stage you need 50-100 diamonds at max 25 diamonds for each boss, if you cannot guarantee a sure victory retreat and try again untill you can guarantee that with 25 diamonds you will have victory. no diamonds should be spend in the 6 goods minigame.
Try to arrange special "gold" weeks where everyone goes for it,
Another trick / cheat you can use is to guarantee gold for a little bit, this way people are more willing to reach the top.
While is sounds lame it might be an excellent tool to get over that dead zone, as they developers seems to be willing to look away from it.
This has been openly shown of the DE server from week 1
(guilds getting scores of 4000 points!), and they are not willing to patch it.
For this you need:
- 1 free spot in the guild
- Several chapter 3 or higher second accounts without a guild that your fellows have to hang around:
Once a player leaves the guild the tower points stay with your guild, the trick is to swap in and out these accounts for additional points to guarantee the gold medal. While lame I have seen several guilds use this method to get the guild to the point where they can reach gold stable without the help of these accounts.
Once players are guaranteed those 125 diamonds at the top, they seem to be more willingness to strive for it, resulting in a pretty big jump for overall guild score as more people jump in to the top.
If I have some extra free time
I might translate this post to english and post it here:
This is my explanation how the tower works and what it's advantages are.