How much gold / seals / trophies could you contribute to a guild in a week?
My guild will take you and get you a mythic every few months if you can meet requirements (and, if your kingdoms are all leveled, exceed them, hopefully; we have multiple people who give 1-2 million gold a week).
Alternate view:
If you look at playing one match, in a vacuum, yes. The rewards in GoW are bad. But matches play fast, and you can usually play 5 or 6 of them in a short amount of time. When you look at the rewards for âplaying for 30 minutesâ, those small rewards add up.
GoW is a game of scale. Time is the currency. You are constantly trying to figure out how to get more resources per unit time. But if you arenât playing, you accumulate far fewer resources because only tribute counts.
So by definition, if you only want to play 2-3 matches per day, you will make virtually no progress. It takes ~120 PvP matches to get enough gold to push a kingdom to level 10. There are 33 kingdoms. So the rules on the box tell you to play 3,360 total PvP matches to finish that task. At 5 games daily, that will take 672 days. At 50 games daily, it will take 67.2 days.
Thatâs the difference between 10 minutes and an hour. GoW is best played if you can spend an hour on it.
If you donât like that, I agree you should leave. Itâs the healthy thing to do. There are games that do reward smaller time investments out there, you will be happier with one of those.
And, despite this fact, I have done this (as briefly mentioned in a previous post). 
Oh, and please pardon the current mess of the initial post in the particular thread I linked. Been kinda using it as a my notepad for a while, and still have yet to go in and tidy it up.
This is the first time Lexarius has posted â letâs welcome them to our community!
How ironic breaking rules first time posting
Haha, youâre a special case. You knew what you were getting into and wanted to see what would happen and I love it.
Iâve been playing a little over 4 years, which is as long as the game has existed. Your 5-6 is a wild exaggeration. I have every troop, all at mythic, except Zuul, which I have yet to craft.
You sure you didnât mean 5-6 months?
One of my main concerns in this broken foundation (and there are several cracks) game was the in-game economy (which most F2P tend to have issues with and tightly control). Most economies have 20% or so of the people controlling 80% of the resources. There is always a âcompoundingâ issue too (the longer youâre active, the more extra resources you get). In this game, that appears to me to be the guild reward system. This leads to imbalances and freezing out newer players (canât compete and appears more pay to win - to be fair, the guild system incentivizes in game purchasing), which also impacts long-term viability. Yes, I think the guild system vastly âoverpaidâ in resources and should have been "nerfed much earlier. I think they should at least half the scoreboard gem rewards too.
Despite what is claimed, this is very much a single player game - you fight the battles yourself, but the rewards are skewed heavily to group activities. It seems to me like most rewards in this game are a form of âcoat-tailingâ (getting rewarded for other peopleâs work).
Yeah, if youâre early in the game donât sleep on treasure maps (get Tyri from Zhul Kari soon).
The DragonSeoul, that challenge is insane (though I incidentally would have probably tried the same with two exceptions - bounties and explore battles are ok).
i would like to see what kind of resources an account could get doing absolutely nothing in game and only collecting tributes (once daily), log-ins, and guild related rewards.
I am really, really getting annoyed by the failure to log-in on the Xbox (an weird non-thread post potential). Way to cost me 100+ gems in tributes. I was going to spend next week burning through hundreds of treasure maps . I wish this game would let me donate all of my resources (including âcardsâ) for when I actually do quit (well coming back from time to time for achievements and to see how they changed delves)
Synergy in the defense, buddy. In Explore - Warlord IV diff level - the troops do not possess a lot of synergy with the way they play. Sure it is played by AI and luck may favor it, but a battle is won not by strength and luck but based on Synergy - how the team works together. I have seen great defenses in PvP that wouldnât even let us play for some turns. And AI doesnât usually miss any 4-5 match (we might, if we are not looking keenly). Never a great defense in Explore or other events. Thatâs why, defense scales up fast in weekly guild events like ToD, Raid Boss etc. Players are able to kill a level 500 defense in Raid Boss event, yet lose to a good PvP defense thatâs only as strong as them.
I too was contemplating leaving. Mine however rests in the fact that:
1.) the game has no true multiplayer to play against my friendsâŚit seems like the game could easily support it.
2.) They seem to be adding more and more content without fixing multiple bugs found within the game
Nope very active guilds, with guild chests supposedly having a chance for mythics. And yeah they would eventually die, members or the leads would just switch to something else after awhile.
I generally max out the seal count. Hasnât effected much though.
It canât. The devs have addressed such an idea before. They would have to make a completely different game from scratch. Like a Gems of War 2 or something.
Iâve been reading this thread for a bit.
My opinion is thisâŚ
No one can tell you how to have fun. So if you arenât having fun playing Gems of War. Then itâs probably not for you. Regardless of itâs 6 years, 6 months, or 6 days⌠If youâre going to spend time on something that you arenât getting paid for. And itâs not time used for loved ones or your community. Then it falls into the entertainment category of time⌠So simplyâŚ
Yeah I donât know how to phrase it any simpler than that.
I disagree with some of the points being made about how GoW functions, but I also canât tell OP whether theyâre having fun. I get wanting to leave a âthis is why I left, fix it and Iâll playâ message, but the points are numerous and GoW would have to be a different game to satisfy them.
Just go when itâs not the game you like. I donât like a lot of popular things. Itâs OK.
Thanks for the offer, however iâm taking time off (maybe 6 months). Hopefully by then the game will be playable on my console.
When/if you come back, feel free to look us up for a good place to hang your hat: Bloodred Revenges
Take care! 
