Earn Gold, Euro and soon Bitcoin just playing.

[Dealer]

I assume that playing this game without really investing yourself isn't worthwhile for earnings?

If you get an extra hundred or two a month, why not?

Well, that's my question. Are the earnings worth it? I doubt you can earn a hundred or two/month without investing.

The top player there started only 2 months ago and he sold in last 30 days 1 700 virtual gold coins for 6 800 Euros.

Yes, my bad, didn't see it! Since I found this thread I've been looking up everything about it, actually investing as well. Very interesting!

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[Lauda]

This has been giving me login trouble since I've registered.
Always a few times username or password incorrect..

[globalvillage]

some members get way more then that, but they do not only play, they treat it as business too...

[Aahzman]

I do not want to hijack someone's post with their ref link, and to explain more under their ref link, it will be silly of me...  Referrals in GoldenTowns are important, beginning from level 2, they pay us 10% taxes.  We can sell them for virtual gold and then they pay their taxes to the new owners, so yep, it is important from what link you register and if you choose to register from main link, you will still pay taxes, but to the government and you would not have anyone to give you a hand when you get stacked with something...

Just yesterday, they opened internal chat system (due to spamming, only members from level 3 up have access to it) and it's much easier to communicate now with each other. 

How you earn? You build and than defend your town, you produce products: vegetable, wood, clay, stone and iron and you mine gold, you sell your products and your virtual gold for real cash or real gold.  There is a forum where you can ask questions and your first steps in the game are guided by Maria, the game host, so nope, it is not hard at all, everyone can learn and successfully play.  Look, this is the message I just got on Skype, it's from my ref, this is his 3rd day in the game:

I just have my 1st gold mine.

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Defend my town from WHAT? is this a Player-vs-Player game? So i can spend weeks building something up, just so some scumbag 30 levels higher than me can come along and burn it to the ground and take all the goods i've accumulated?

[globalvillage]

@Aahzman,

Defend my town from WHAT?

"GoldenTowns is also a political simulator. The countries in the game are identical to the real ones and ruled by a government. If you have a sufficiently developed town, you may end up ruling the country together with your partners in the game. Anybody can become a governor, it only takes time and a little ambition. Countries may come into conflict and wars are waged for gold and profit, the larger conflicts being able to involve a significant number of towns. Matters such as how to reach the top of the hierarchy, what to do to become a governor and how you can turn politics into gold are discussed in the Politics chapter.
 
War
Wars are commenced for profit and profit leads to other conflicts. War constitutes an important element in GoldenTowns and may represent a good source of income. As long as a town is conquered by you, it will pay taxes. The more towns under your occupation, the higher the gained profits. In addition to your receiving taxes, the government will provide you with bonuses. In GoldenTowns towns belong to a country. Countries bear the names of real-life counterparts and, just as in real life, conflicts may occur between them, involving numerous towns. If you take part in a war and fight for the winners, all the towns in the conquered country will start paying taxes and these taxes are received by the victors. This is an extraordinary source of resources and gold. Still, in order to conquer a town, you need soldiers, who are consumers of resources, and international conflicts require strong armies. The War chapter reveals how to develop a fantastic army with which to conquer the world."...

[waltermot321]

How much did you guys earn from these and how long it takes.. not ganna waste time creating account...

[globalvillage]

without any virtual gold, it takes about 2 weeks to develop your town, develop a strong economy before you profit from your gold mine... 

[Monkey1]

There is all the info now about the earning potential of this game, BTW, you can cash out your gold in BTC now too.

When you are logged in, click on Gold, then Gold Owners and look up Sirdiman and other gold owners profiles.  Click on Marketplace, see how members are selling their gold daily.   The top player there started only 2 months ago and he sold in last 30 days 1 700 virtual gold coins for 6 800 Euros. Is this enough of 'earning mechanism' or not,  not even a potential mechanism, an actual one.

I have started playing the game exactly 2 weeks ego, this is where I am today:



I already have 2 Golden mines with current output of 0.70 gold daily.

In addition, I earn gold by selling raw products on the game market and collecting taxes from my citizens.

At the moment of this writing there is 236 players online, 316 signups today, 3264 actives today, 8523 total accounts

If you register from my link, I will help you out with your game strategy, I am student of one of the best players :-)

This is not your town!

The picture, buildings, resources etc are identical.

Its a generic picture posted on several how to guides.  A bit of honesty would go a long way and you have just lost it!  

[globalvillage]

Nope, this IS my town, I followed my sponsor directions where to built what.  If you smart, you follow it too...

I am not such person to try to improve something which is working already, LOL


Guys, at the beginning, you really need to think where you are erecting new buildings...  Everything is connected to everything else, and you need influence from other services to be able to upgrade your current services...

"It is very easy, during the first weeks into the game, to build what you should not or to extend in the wrong direction. There are a few basic town construction rules which will help you avoid the mistakes of those lacking the patience to read the 50 documentation pages.
First of all, any patch of land must be connected to the town hall by means of a road. The high level buildings require higher level roads. A road actually comprises several patches of road placed one next to another, having, in the end, various shapes. Individual patches may be improved at higher levels. All the constitutive patches of a level 2 road are at least level 2. Prior to commencing the improvement of buildings, improve the roads.
Another vital rule is to locate certain buildings, such as dwellings, under the influence area of another building. The influence area represents a circle around one service building. The circle has a specific radius depending on the building level. Check at all times which buildings will require in the future the current land patch in order not to build what you should not.
Most buildings require employees. A building requires an additional employee with every level increase. A level 2 building requires 2 employees and a level 3 one requires 3 employees. You must permanently recruit new workers in order to avoid blockages.
Very important is the buildings’ lifespan, as well. Any building degrades by 5% / day. Upon a 100% degradation, the building collapses. A building degraded by more than 25% cannot be improved. Try to improve buildings as often as possible. Not all buildings degrade. In order to avoid definitive blockages, initial buildings (buildings initially placed on the map) will never degrade. Moreover, workers who are employed in the initial buildings never die. It is very important to avoid the construction of new productive buildings until you have improved up to level 5 the old ones.
In conclusion, during the first days you only have to improve the infrastructure and the initial production buildings while recruiting as many new citizens as possible."

So you see, likely more people than I am follow the proven path...

[Monkey1]

This IS NOT your town!!

The photo was taken from this website!

http://opportunitiesfromhome.org/golden-towns-review-online-strategy-game-that-pay-real-money

Unless you are now claiming that you are that poster as well!

The game does look good and I would have joined with your referral but you were dishonest and that put me off!

If this truly is your town, post a picture from today!

[OleOle]

This IS NOT your town!!

The photo was taken from this website!

I have to say I agree with you. I looked at the game and thought it was worth playing but I did not think it was worth using any of the referral links posted so far on this thread. The previous posters appears to be disingenuous by attempting to distort the truth and I also agree with you that the pictures above appear to be copied from the home page on the main website link at www.goldentowns.com

There's not massive payouts every month of thousands of Euros, this is a complete distortion. Total up all the bullion gold that backs the virtual gold in the game, this isn't worth a great deal of money either. The error in misrepresentation was the claim that X amount of virtual gold had been sold for Y Euros; the fact overlooked is that some of the main players have been a) involved with admin from previous games and hence had their investments in other Anno games carried forward into Goldentowns (I know this as I have spoken with some of the senior players) and b) you're overlooking the fact that these virtual gold resellers both buy and sell gold, that is, they don't only sell the virtual gold, they buy it off players too. For example they advertise to buy virtual gold at say 4 Euros per gold, and they advertise to sell virtual gold at 5 Euros per gold. As such, they certainly make what's know as a 'spread profit' between the buy and the sell prices, but it's a substantial misrepresentation to purport that all the gold they sell is for pure profit and that this profit is removed from the game by way of earnings every month.

It is disappointing that members of this forum would attempt to falsify easily verifiable facts in the hope that they could convince people to click their referral link to make an in-game profit and that many repeat posts have been made by this person in an attempt to cover up their misrepresentations and to persuade people of the legitimacy of the otherwise reasonable earning mechanism available to players in the game over time.

A quick look at the home page at www.goldentowns.com (yes, type that in your browser to bypass any referral links in previous threads) will reveal that the amount of bullion gold which backs the virtual gold in this game is currently 128.0323 grams. If you look at the price of gold per ounce quoted by the World Gold Council on www.gold.org you'll see the figure of USD$/oz Mid USD$1351.43 - with one troy ounce being worth 31.1034768 grams. That is the total value of virtual gold in the game is backed by approximately 4.116 ounces of gold, or roughly USD$5562.92.

Clearly, the previous poster has been distorting the available information to hook people into using their referral link to purport that players can easily make over 6800 Euros per month, a complete fabrication given that all the main players both buy and sell gold, so mentioning only the sold gold figure is only half the story.

Yes, over time I am sure that astute players could make money, but it is no-where in the magnitude of figures claimed by the above poster and members of this forum are right to be suspicious of outlandish claims based on only half the publicly available information.

Let me assure you that if it was a fantastic earning mechanism I'd be more than happy to publicise my referral link here or even mention my username in the Goldentowns game, but I didn't write my comments in this post to gain referrals, far from it, if you look earlier into this thread you'll see that I previously asked about the 'earning mechanism' then in response was fed repeated lies, distortions and falsifications of potential earnings, lies which are easily disproved by simply registering in the game for oneself, playing it for a few days, speaking with some of the senior people in the game, estimating potential 'spread profit' potential and measuring in-game gold backed by the current spot price of gold bullion.

And before the bullshitter above tries to slice and dice my post, fuck off, get a life and stop lying to people.

[globalvillage]

Nope it is NOT.  If you need to know, Petr, the owner of this website, is my sponsor and we work together, his username is  'kovandap'.  Check him up please, he is new in the game, never played in CashTowns, and today he is 5th on the list of towns sorted by population!!!  His profits are now 10 gold per day from mining and selling raws, and more profits from townshares.   His own townshares were sold in 10 seconds, all 1000 of them...

And yep, he registered in the game only 21 days ego...  Nothing is a big lie, everything is so easy to verify inside.   That picture is the same as in Petr's blog, but gosh it is far from the picture on the main site, compare them closer LOL, are you blind or playing stupid...? 

OleOle, you have a major flaw in your reasoning and calculations.

My example was given about the top player, and not the average player, and I know for a fact that it was the exact total of the gold he sold.  Of course, he is an official gold reseller, so you are right with the spread profit part, still that part was made in the game too, and every player has a fair chance to become in time an official gold reseller.  You are wrong with the rest of your own distortions and big word accusations...   

F... off yourself OleOle, I thought that people with such rich vocabulary do not need to use such common intensifier ha ha.

[fildza]

How much the exchange rate?

[globalvillage]

A quick look at the home page at www.goldentowns.com (yes, type that in your browser to bypass any referral links in previous threads) will reveal that the amount of bullion gold which backs the virtual gold in this game is currently 128.0323 grams. If you look at the price of gold per ounce quoted by the World Gold Council on www.gold.org you'll see the figure of USD$/oz Mid USD$1351.43 - with one troy ounce being worth 31.1034768 grams. That is the total value of virtual gold in the game is backed by approximately 4.116 ounces of gold, or roughly USD$5562.92.

Look guys, a quick look at the home page at www.goldentowns.com will reveal that the amount of bullion gold which backs the virtual gold in this game is currently..... 128.19530 grams    The point is that this amount is steadily growing, for members are buying from the Game found advantages (immediate completion of construction, energy packages, game shares ...).   The point is that there never will be more than 100 000 virtual gold coins and that these virtual coins are backed up by an increasing amount of real 24k gold.

As to CashTowns, nothing else but inflation killed that game and this is why we have GoldenTowns.  GoldenTowns was developed on top of Cashtowns technology and is based on a completely new concept never used before in a game, a limited number of virtual currency. It's also the very first game ever  that uses real gold as an exchange money.

[globalvillage]

@fildza, the current gold game fund balance is 91519, the total amount held by players at this very moment is 3177 and the exchange rate varies, depending on the sellers, you can buy virtual gold from 4.75 to 5.50 Euro and you can sell it ( I think this was exactly your question) from 2 to 3.5 Euro.

It depends on the minimum and maximum sold or purchased and on the chosen payment method too.  

BTW, Killam has just added BTC exchange too, whoo hoo!

[globalvillage]

TheNewAnon135246, you do not know what you are talking about...  plus this is not my thread, please direct all questions (sincere questions) here:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=316483.msg3417912#msg3417912

and please, do not pollute that thread and thank you.

[moneyboss]

is this game fun to play or is it really boring, is it similar to that game grepolis?
Also does it require a good graphic card or can it be played by a bad computer

[Monkey1]

Nope, this IS my town

Nope it is NOT.  If you need to know, Petr, the owner of this website, is my sponsor and we work together, his username is  'kovandap'. 

 That picture is the same as in Petr's blog,

So its not your town!!! and you are a liar???

[globalvillage]

@moneyboss, I am not familiar with grepolis, I haven't been playing before any online games, only played multiplayer chess occasionally, but GoldenTowns is not at all boring...  just the opposite, many think that it is the most complex, brilliant and challenging game ever.  

You do not need any special graphic card in your computer, an updated browser is all what you need.  Some people prefer to play on FF, some on Chrome, and even IE is working with it too.



Monkey1, please stop monkeying around, I am not any liar and I already answered you that question...  

BTW, this is Petr's town from day 16, level 15, is that picture a generic one too, I am not there yet, the teacher is still better than the student, but I hope... ;-)





And yes, the url of this picture is from the blog ;-)

[Monkey1]

You claim its your town, then claim its your sponsors!  You are clearly full of **** and yet you expect people to believe you and use you as a referral!

I know what that town looks like, I can read the blog and copy the pictures the same as you.  Post something you haven't taken from anothers blog!

You refuse to post today's screen shot of your own town!

You offer a lot of generic advice, based on the game pages and no real strategy.

You have clearly worked out that this is a pyramid scheme where the only way to make money is to get a lot of referrals and live off them, which is what you are doing.   If you were a little more honest about it in the beginning, I would probably have joined via your link, but i don't like being misled!

Good luck convincing the masses!