![]() This category includes using diamonds to buy Knowledge Points, using diamonds to complete a technology in the research tree, using diamonds to start a production run in a factory, using diamonds to complete a building upgrade, using diamonds to replace troops lost in battle, using diamonds to gain runes for Ancient Wonders, etc… This category is applied to the largest portion of features that are purchasable with diamonds. ![]() They are one shot effects that a player could easily wait to gain naturally with the timer system. These kinds of micro-transactions are the worst value in the game. Or, if the upgrade is already going, the player can use diamonds to automatically finish the upgrade, bypassing the timers. For example, if you need to do an upgrade but don’t have enough coins, supplies or goods, diamonds can be used to buy those resources and get the upgrade rolling. The worst value for diamond purchases is by far any purchase that “fills in” a resource that you are missing or simply speeds up a timer. There are also occasional sales that give bonus diamonds, or other bonus resources like Knowledge Points, Relics, Event resources, etc… The smallest transaction available is 500 diamonds for $4.99 USD ($0.00998 per diamond) and the largest transaction is 11,000 diamonds for $79.99 USD ($0.00727 per diamond). These premium culture buildings are generally better than the non-premium buildings that are unlocked at the same time, but they become worse as the game goes on. Each chapter has technology that unlocks premium culture buildings. In order to allow us to pay costs for those upgrades, we need better and better Culture Buildings. New levels of residences, workshops, manufactories and military buildings allow the player to continue following the research tree as more and more resources become a requirement. In Elvenar, each new chapter unlocks buildings that are better than those offered in previous chapters. The basic tenet for knowing which diamond purchases retain the most value is that a premium feature which does not become overshadowed as the game progresses is worth much more than those that will become “useless” the further along your game goes. So which premium features are the most valuable? ![]() ![]() It should be noted that diamonds are never required to play Elvenar, they are completely optional. The nature of the research tree affects some of the features that are available for diamond-purchase, because better and better technology is unlocked as you progress through the tree, and better and better premium features become available as well. ![]() Elvenar is no exception to the freemium structure that many games embrace, with Diamonds being Elvenar’s in-game currency only obtainable by spending real money. In most of these so called freemium games, the player’s time is the main currency used to stay away from using their real-life wallet, and so most, if not all, of the features that can be purchased in-game decrease the amount of time that it would normally take for a F2P account to get to the same point. Games that are free to play (F2P) that offer micro-transactions are colloquially known as “freemium” games. ![]()
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