Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26427455-20150807023637/@comment-26535702-20150817120232

I (LittleAndyorJenny) still follow this thread, and I pass any updates on to "Friend" (the tribe maw). So it looks like there are at least 5 or 6 of us that can communicate on here. I'm in general agreement with the plan so far. As long as the tribe is on a growing trend, I think it's fine for higher level players to help out more while lower level players are still building their economies. If those players (lower contributors) are doing nothing but trying to feed their tribe monster to the point of neglecting their other islands, their overall growth will be very slow, and I'd imagine it would take away from the enjoyment of playing. I like the idea of seeing how players trend over a couple of weeks before determining if they should stay or go.

Cobalt, I also wonder about members holding back. I know my husband is using every shard he has, so no holding back there. I don't have a shard reserve (before tribal I traded them for diamonds), though I have a bit of banked food which I could use, as you say, to put us over the top if needed. This week I used my earned shards for leveling, but I stopped at the point where I could have traded shards for diamonds, so a bit of holding back on my part. That is to say, 450k shards could have been traded for 15 diamonds, instead I used 449,244 shards to level up, on the assumption that I will get those 15 diamonds anyway. Hope that made sense. I only make about 50k more shards than I spent this week, so that wouldn't go far at the 100+ levels anyway.