Inaginni said:
Well... Plarium did change payouts, but in a way towards how Plarium intended the system to work (didn't quite work, but it got closer).
@Charlene: I went over this before in the thread linked above. Here's how I've found to get roughly 95% back out for a max level of 30. It does seem that high level bgs can get the same results by breaking 4-30 (depending on how high your bg's level is).
Changing system and changing payouts is not the same thing. Payout - is the amount of Units you can receive. it wasn't changed. You still can get the same rewards as you got before. We did change some things, but they don't affect payouts directly. They affect only one strategy which now needs more time to get the same payout as before.
But there is one "but".
Even this change was not that tragic as some players think it was.
For instance, let's say that player A uses "yellowing" strategy, and player B uses "one-by-one" strategy which was recommended in that post.
Let's say that Player B raids BGs one by one, and when he raids 20 of level 150 BGs he receives 5000 Dragons as a big payout and 2000 Dragons from mini-payouts. 7000 in total for 20 BGs.
Player A who used to "yellow" BGs can "yellow" 19 BGs and then hit the 20th BG and receive 5000 Dragons as a payout and 100 Dragons as a mini-payout of this 20th BG. Then he can go back to other BGs and collect 1900 Dragons.
If Player A and Player B raid the same amount of BGs (100, or 1000, it doesn't matter), they will find out that they have received the same payouts.
Of course, there is a random component which leads to bigger or less payouts, so their results may differ a little. It's just an example.
Moreover, if you have some statistics of yellowing BGs before and after the update, you can compare results and find out that let's say 1000 BGs give you the same payout. Or certain investments give you the same payout (with a little difference because of random variable).