Before - I can have any crystals I want.

Now - The need to upgrade your SOS to enable you use crystals. 

I don't get your enthusiasm in telling us that you've updated Stormfall with a downgraded update. 

What next  "Its great news Plarium has upgraded Stormfall so that all troops take twice as long to train and take twice the resources"?

Lord Oberon said:

My Lords and Ladies! 

The rules governing Crystals have been updated! Your Sanctum of Shards is now upgradable! Henceforth, upgrade your Sanctum of Shards to use higher level Crystals. Do not underestimate the importance of these upgrades, My Lord, for they are necessary in order to use higher level Crystals. 

Lest you forget, my Lord, Crystals provide many benefits to your armies. With the proper Crystals you can boost the statistics of your offensive and your defensive Units, ensuring you an enviable advantage in battle! The higher the level of the Crystals you have, the better your Units shall perform, and the better the bonuses you receive shall be! 

Closed Activation Slots may be unlocked with the help of a Seal of Weor. These may be purchased at the Black Market or acquired at the Daily Loyalty Roll. 

Upgrade your Sanctum of Shards, use Crystals to boost your Units, acquire Seals, and rule Stormfall! 

Lord Oberon  

Heir of Veyon, Scion of the Firstborn, Lord Regent of Stormfall

Am I missing something?  It sounds to me like you're saying that we have to pay more for the same bonuses we already had and that this is somehow a good thing?

My Lord, the interface improvements to the building will also be introduced as soon as possible. As for the update itself, it adds one more upgradable building, which I think is a good thing during the upgrade challenges, especially for those Lords and Ladies who have ran out of them. 

Lord Oberon said:

Lord Red, we're already working on a feature that would let Lords and Ladies upgrade their other buildings by more levels.

Lord Oberon,

It seems like your response missed part of the point.  Upgrades that add something new would be nice.  That is paying resources for expected gain, which makes sense.  Adding upgrades that take away function we used to have until we pay more resources to get it back is lame...arbitrary theft in my book.  

I can understand there are lords who ran out of things to upgrade.  They are rewarded with that awesome castle skin that looks like yours for their achievement.  I can understand that it is cruddy that they can't participate in the development tourney due to already being maxed.  So, rather than stealing from all players and telling us we have to pay more resources to get it back, lets see building upgrades and new buildings that add something to the game.  I can get excited about that, but not about having to buy back what I already had.

Lord Oberon said:

My Lord, If for instance all resource buildings were added some levels and produced more resources, would you consider this gain?

It already take me 2-4 days to get enough resources to upgrade just one farm deppending on successfull raids and so on. I don't think adding more levels to pour resources into for little gain back is good.

Raise a farm from level 18 to 19, give a increase of 500 food per hour.. After 388 DAYS, it have recovered the resources needed (in just food) to get to that level.

I would rather want to see a system where, if you attack people of similar levels, you gain bonus. and if you hit smaller guys, you get penalities. Could help protect newer players a bit.

Gadheras said:

Lord Oberon said:

My Lord, If for instance all resource buildings were added some levels and produced more resources, would you consider this gain?

It already take me 2-4 days to get enough resources to upgrade just one farm deppending on successfull raids and so on. I don't think adding more levels to pour resources into for little gain back is good.

Raise a farm from level 18 to 19, give a increase of 500 food per hour.. After 388 DAYS, it have recovered the resources needed (in just food) to get to that level.

I would rather want to see a system where, if you attack people of similar levels, you gain bonus. and if you hit smaller guys, you get penalities. Could help protect newer players a bit.

If the goal is to give older players more to upgrade, then yes, it is a gain.  One complaint though:  If you do add it and keep the insane high cost to upgrade, you unfairly raise the bar for others who have not yet maxed everything.  That's why I'd rather see new buildings or new functions added to existing buildings.  If it costs several million more resources for newer players to achieve the same reward for maxing that older players already have, that's really not right either.

How about adding more levels that increase production by a % rather than by a flat amount?  When you consider that at highest levels for farms, you are just about having to max warehouses and barns to afford even one upgrade, the flat increase really doesn't pay back what you spend to get it.  

I would rather want to see a system where, if you attack people of similar levels, you gain bonus. and if you hit smaller guys, you get penalities. Could help protect newer players a bit.