Talk:Awards/@comment-5289340-20120713193849/@comment-4102115-20120714023247

Yes, everything you said is correct. First, remember we are all Paradise Island Fans here sharing what we have learnt with fellow fans and we have nothing to do with the developers of the game and we all despise how greedy they are (see extensive comments on that topic on several pages, but in particular on the Versions page and Upcoming buildings and features page.

This site has 12 months of players asking to trade playmoney for piastres and more buildings that give piastres, however, if you look back 12 months ago, you will see that they actually have increased significantly the amount of piastres you get. When the oldies here first started playing we got 1 piastre per day only after we build the Business Center and another 2 every second day once we got to the Bank. And besides the rare Pirate Chest bonus, that was it. Now you get 3 Piastres every fifth day, extra piastres during some events like Christmas Tree and Birthday event, several piastres from the Idol, Scrolls that give discounts on Limted Edition purchases, and so on.

Second, yes, it's impossible to get many of the Limited Edition buildings without buying piastres. No, they will not add extra piastre-producing buildings, they are a for-profit business and chose to make this game a freemium game which has proven to be a hugely successful model for them! Probably 90% of Paradise Island players choose not to pay any money for the game (including most of the admins on here), and that's their choice, but they also have no right to whinge about anything. Probably 9% will pay a few dollars during a Lucky Star bonus offering.

And maybe 1% of players choose to pay for lots of piastres and cover their island with Flags and so on and go for the Awards and consider US$100 - 200 an extremely cheap cost for entertainment for a game they've played for hundreds of hours over a year.

In short - unless you are going to go for the The Great Victory Award, there is no point in chasing these other "pointless awards". (I should create a "Pointless Awards" Page eh?). ie. Awards that you would never otherwise go for or achieve that give you nothing except require that you spend piastres for the sole purpose of obtaining that award, such as 250€ to restock Leonid's shop...

Take note of The Great Victory Analysis - if you are not going to buy piastres, it will take you well over a year of dedicated playing without spending any piastres on any Limited Edition building. To me that just seems a pointless boring way to play. Either not bother with the The Great Victory Analysis|Great Victory Award, the Tedious awards and the Pointless Awards / or buy Piastres.