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Noticed the probable cost of upgrading a stronghold ?
fenyxdrayven
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Hey all,
Earlier while looking through all the new goodies, something caught my eye when looking at the upgrade requirements. The core stronghold has 20 ranks, all the other buildings have 10 ranks. To get all the other buildings up to rank 10, you need a rank 20 stronghold to unlock that last rank.
The first upgrade on the stronghold costs 300,000 AD in contributions (This is just direct AD contributed at 1000 AD per Astral Diamond Chest in the coffers)
The final rank of the stronghold costs 7,300,000 with it going up incremental each 2 ranks, with a gold cost on the ranks in between.
The initial production buildings dont cost any AD to upgrade, so I am presuming the others are the same when they are unlocked
I am also making a presumption that the boon sites will have an AD cost to upgrade that will be similar to the cost of the PvE support buildings.
If a guild was to approach their stronghold with a completionist view, there are 6 support sites, 8 pvp sites, and 4 boon sites plus the production sites.
This is all speculative, having looked at the initial unlocked sites that are available with the rank 1 stronghold and presuming the sites unlocked later on have the same pattern to their upgrade fee's, ie all PvE support sites cost the same to rank 10, all the PvP towers cost the same etc.
The PVP sites cost 15.7m AD each to get to rank 10
The Support sites cost 7.3m AD each to get to rank 10
The Production sites look to cost 0 AD to get to rank 10, just a gold fee.
The Boon sites, im presuming, will be structured like either the support (PvE) or PVP buildings, so will cost either 7.3m or 15.7m each to upgrade, I will use 7.3m to get to rank 10 for this, as that would make PvE and PvP have around the same overall value for each 'side'
Thats per site, and theres a fair few of them... 23 in total, separated by category.
Your main stronghold.
6 Support.
8 PvP
4 Boon
4 Production
If a guild was to concentrate on _only_ the PvE buildings, not build any of the PvP ones at all, and presuming that the 4 boon sites cost a total of 7.3m each to upgrade to rank 10 like the support sites, a full rank 20 stronghold with rank 10 sites would cost 121,700,000 AD.
Lets put that into perspective, with the current Zen-AD exchange rate at 500 AD per zen, and $10 netting you 1k zen, to outright buy the AD required just for the direct AD cost of upgrades, thats $2434 just for the PvE buildings capped out.
The astonishing thing is that the 8 PvP buildings cost an additional 125,600,000 AD on top of the PvE cost. Thats an additional $2512
This does not include the AD costs of all the other materials and resources we would have to contribute in the upgrades, the AD cost of all those rank 4 ench stacks, profession assets etc, its all going to add up to a HAMSTER unholy amount of AD overall...
On a bit of a quirky twist, if a guild had 150 individual active members, and they all decided to equally split that base cost of AD between them, that would work out at $33 each, when you also think about how much AD the other resources are going to cost ontop of that, you could look at it costing about $50 a person, around what a game costs anyway to buy, its like they almost reverse engineered the ingame costings and resource requirements per upgrade to hit a figure like that per account in a maxed out guild ...
Earlier while looking through all the new goodies, something caught my eye when looking at the upgrade requirements. The core stronghold has 20 ranks, all the other buildings have 10 ranks. To get all the other buildings up to rank 10, you need a rank 20 stronghold to unlock that last rank.
The first upgrade on the stronghold costs 300,000 AD in contributions (This is just direct AD contributed at 1000 AD per Astral Diamond Chest in the coffers)
The final rank of the stronghold costs 7,300,000 with it going up incremental each 2 ranks, with a gold cost on the ranks in between.
The initial production buildings dont cost any AD to upgrade, so I am presuming the others are the same when they are unlocked
I am also making a presumption that the boon sites will have an AD cost to upgrade that will be similar to the cost of the PvE support buildings.
If a guild was to approach their stronghold with a completionist view, there are 6 support sites, 8 pvp sites, and 4 boon sites plus the production sites.
This is all speculative, having looked at the initial unlocked sites that are available with the rank 1 stronghold and presuming the sites unlocked later on have the same pattern to their upgrade fee's, ie all PvE support sites cost the same to rank 10, all the PvP towers cost the same etc.
The PVP sites cost 15.7m AD each to get to rank 10
The Support sites cost 7.3m AD each to get to rank 10
The Production sites look to cost 0 AD to get to rank 10, just a gold fee.
The Boon sites, im presuming, will be structured like either the support (PvE) or PVP buildings, so will cost either 7.3m or 15.7m each to upgrade, I will use 7.3m to get to rank 10 for this, as that would make PvE and PvP have around the same overall value for each 'side'
Thats per site, and theres a fair few of them... 23 in total, separated by category.
Your main stronghold.
6 Support.
8 PvP
4 Boon
4 Production
If a guild was to concentrate on _only_ the PvE buildings, not build any of the PvP ones at all, and presuming that the 4 boon sites cost a total of 7.3m each to upgrade to rank 10 like the support sites, a full rank 20 stronghold with rank 10 sites would cost 121,700,000 AD.
Lets put that into perspective, with the current Zen-AD exchange rate at 500 AD per zen, and $10 netting you 1k zen, to outright buy the AD required just for the direct AD cost of upgrades, thats $2434 just for the PvE buildings capped out.
The astonishing thing is that the 8 PvP buildings cost an additional 125,600,000 AD on top of the PvE cost. Thats an additional $2512
This does not include the AD costs of all the other materials and resources we would have to contribute in the upgrades, the AD cost of all those rank 4 ench stacks, profession assets etc, its all going to add up to a HAMSTER unholy amount of AD overall...
On a bit of a quirky twist, if a guild had 150 individual active members, and they all decided to equally split that base cost of AD between them, that would work out at $33 each, when you also think about how much AD the other resources are going to cost ontop of that, you could look at it costing about $50 a person, around what a game costs anyway to buy, its like they almost reverse engineered the ingame costings and resource requirements per upgrade to hit a figure like that per account in a maxed out guild ...
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I don't know who is telling such kind of HAMSTER that everyone need to pay 33 million AD. It is more like that a guild with 150 member has to pay around 1 million per member. And a freeplayer can generate with one character within 1 month over 700.000 AD. So no biggy about the AD costs.
Strongholds -> Strongholds packs in the ZEN shop
and i doubt that you will get any official answer about this, feedback thread in the feedback forum is running now for over a month, and not a single Dev reply in it.
See my other posts on SH subjects to know why. LOL
Oh, and as I've also said in those and will reiterate here: it's expensive on purpose to force time. It is supposed to take a long time to build up your SH - a very long time. Like months. Some will do it in a month, most will take three to six months.