Bigbadjohn wrote:The cost does seem ridiculously steep - 1.04 billion for 37, if it keeps doubling for the next three steps that makes it 15.8 billion to get shop 8 - (BTW is that the shop level that gets the 3% chance of 6*?).
32 players therefore are each going to have to raise around 500 million each, or 5 million guild points!! It is hard enough to find something to do with 50000 gp at times, so what on earth do we do each with 5 million!
If my figures are incorrect - admin - just post them so at least we know it is not going to take 5 years to get guild shop level 8!!!!
It won't take nearly that long as you are underestimating how fast players can farm coins and the number of players with several million coins on hand. We actually were planning on stopping at 35 (there aren't many game that constantly increase guild levels which spreads the player gap), but since several guilds hit 35, we added 5 more levels really as a stretch/long-term goal so the donated fund eventually have some use.
Anyways, I have forwarded this to the design team and they have agreed to lower the total cost to go from 35 to 40 by more than half by tapping out the curve starting at 37. This won't change our plan to keep the maximum at 40 for a long time however.