Hiring Allies: Introduce Minimum Retention Time

That would severely cripple the ally system while I understand why you’d like it later on it would irritate you beyond belief. Playing the ally market is among the best way to make gold a delay would hamper the ability for players to make a profit rapidly

 

You know that there's a chance that the person who you hired the ally from is buying the ally back from you, right? You saying they steal an ally from you immediately after you buy an ally is what I'm talking about. If you really want an ally, you'll have to pay more than they're willing to pay for it. You may end up with an overpriced ally on your hand, but how can it be fair that one person can buy an ally, but it can't be bought back from them for 15 minutes? What if you bought their ally right when they're under attack? They'll end up having to wait 15 minutes to buy it back, or to find someone else's ally to buy? I don't like the idea of setting time limits on ally ownership. If you can't afford to hold on to the ally you just bought, buy a different one and move on.

 

Ok so if I’m attacking or getting attacked none of my 45 allies can be bought from me, now amplify that to the tens of thousands of players in the game and you now have a completely useless ally market where no allies can be bought or sold

 

Learn the market. Play the market.

Hire slightly overpriced allies, they will stick with you longer. The ally market is meant to be set by the players, by putting a do not hire timer on an ally you are inhibiting the ally market. If someone wants an ally they should be able to hire it, after all, if someone else wants the ally, even after you hired it, you hired an at market, or an underpriced ally.

The biggest issue with the ally market is in the active hire range, 100 to 250,000ish where any ally, no matter the stats is likely to get quickly hired away. People hiring in this range are likely just starting out, and seeing their allies get hired away quickly might discourage them from playing the game.

I would be in support of a five minute processing period where the original owner retains the benefits of the ally for up to five minutes, as long do not collect their uncollected gold from the ally sale or rehire the same ally. This will allow the market to continue to set itself, while allowing the newer players to make use of, and learn about the ally market. A market that as you grow, becomes vital to your success in the game.

 

I wouldn't mind if you were able to retain the ally bonus you had when you started the attack if someone hired an ally from you just as you were attacking...My main issue was with the fact that people felt that they should be able to hold onto an ally they just bought (they just bought off of someone else) even if they aren't the highest bidder. If you want an ally, you'll have to pay for it. If someone else buys it, you'll have to be willing to pay more for it than they are willing to pay, or find another ally.

 

As it stands I’m of the opinion the ally system is broken.
If an ally holds a slot for ten minutes after it’s been purchased away so you temporarily keep the bonuses from it, it would solve the problem. It wouldn’t hurt the trading system if it keeps going to the ally slot it’s already in if you buy it back.
The only extra limit this would place is that you couldn’t bid rally more allies than you have ally slots.

This change could actively encourage buying allies if being attacked or going to attack.

 

I agree. I love this game and am thankful to all devs, I know how hard the work is. But hiring system is irritating now to point I dread doing it.

 

You can take advantage of the fast sale of those allies to make some gold.
Buy an ally that you wouldn't mind keeping, it sells, you buy it again until you can't afford to do so anymore. Move on to the next ally. Keep doing this and you'll make a pretty penny. Who knows? Maybe you'll end up keeping an ally and be able to hit with it. But yeah, try to make use of the quick turnaround if you find a price range that's bought out so easily.

 

And y’all proposed ideas would just devastate the game for a multitude of different things like I’m getting attacked let me cap out on cheap allies really quick and increase my defense by say double that makes a tremendous difference or say increase my attack by double same thing it’s would devastate the games entire structure

 

This game already significantly favors the defender, you guys want to have short lasting bonus remain in play, say I have 40 ally slots open and I’m getting attacked I buy 70 allies total (they’re cheap and sell instantly) but the bonus remains so my 500% bonus now goes to idk let’s say 900% that is a massive increase and would completely ruin every aspect of the game