u/Crab_Milk_

I started as a 22 in a call center role. At the time, they factored COL with pay, so I came in making $19 / hr while I had people in my same training class with less prior experience starting at $25 because they lived in NYC.

When I took the job, I was unemployed and this was the first offer I’d seen in months, so I took it. When I took the position as a 24, I was coming from the phones so I would have literally taken a pay decrease to get the job.

For both offers, I wasn’t really given space to negotiate, and I assume that’s by design. Just a call from an offshore recruiter: we’re giving you an offer, here’s this, you’ll need to do that, you’ll be starting on the first, the pay is xxx, we’ll send you an email just fill it out and send it back. It’s all very impersonal and very binary. There’s nobody up front to talk to, it’s just a process.

For the first time since I got here, I’m not desperate. I’m also easily on track for a 5 and in the least arrogant way possible, I have quite literally redefined what my team can do within the year I’ve been here. Our entire team received no pay raise this year. Not even the insulting $0.08 / hr they handed out last year it was just a straight up “yeah no raise this year”. The only way I’m going to up my pay is during transitions like these, and now I feel like I can prove I’m worth it. Especially considering the job I’m going to has the same job description and appears to use the same tools I’ve already souped up with my own scripts.

Pay range for 24 is $42,400 - $75,800 and I’m currently at $54,000. 26 is a guaranteed pay raise already, running $60,200 - $107,400. But I’m happy with my team, I actually like my job, and I excel at the work in a very serious way. I want to ask for $90,000. Anything below $85,000 I’d walk away.

Does anybody have experience negotiating on pay when given an offer? I assume they’ll do it the same way they always have, so would I just tell the recruiter at the time of the call I won’t settle for less than $90,000? Or respond to the email and reject the offer? I keep playing the previous offers in my head and it felt air tight at the time, but I also wasn’t looking. What does this process look like here?

Would it be appropriate to ask in my interview what the budget is for the role, and would they even be honest if I did?

My server is over a year old. I’m on the home stretch for the next upgrade on my lighthouse, but I’m wondering if it might be worth it saving the scrolls to get a jump on the next thing - if there is one coming. There’s all these suspicious looking spots that look like sites for future wonders. Is there any knowledge of another wonder, or alternate use of these scrolls coming?

Our server kind of went to hell after a year of mostly holding together. I won’t get into it here, but we’re planning an exodus. Last window I checked and I was more than fine as a F2P buying passes every week. Since we’ve made the choice to move, we’ve mostly just been hoarding our stuff. I’ve got a whole makeover waiting for me on the other side I couldn’t be more excited about. At the same time, I’m falling behind and it sucks.

I’m sitting just over 300,000,000 but sitting on enough TG, Pet supplies, hammers, mithril, governor gear, charms, speeds, you name it, to single handedly win alliance brawl. Maybe. I don’t know, it’s a lot of stuff. I think when I last checked, it was something like 9-12 passes I’d need, and I’ve got 20 now. If I lose impulse control and make it rain f2p style what kind of increase could I expect to see in the passes to transfer?

It seems like severely injured and killed soldiers hit at the same rate. Does the kill count multiply with troop level? Or is killing 1,000 Tier X troops the same as killing 1,000 Tier I?

My server has been great for a year. Great, engaging crowd, minimal drama at least compared to what I read about here, constant queue of powerful alliances and whales looking to transfer in.

I’m not active in the leadership level so I couldn’t explain the full details of the situation, but one of the more powerful whales in the server has been a known dick and solely responsible for all the drama we have seen. Recently, he dumped a ton of money into the game and became basically untouchable, and now he’s absolutely reveling in the fact that people have to listen to him and take him seriously. Now he’s started zeroing people who disagree with him and there’s a general feeling this isn’t going to stop.

For the life of me, I can’t understand why leadership doesn’t just agree to shun him out and ignore him completely, since he’s clearly just doing this for attention. But that hasn’t been the case. Despite not even participating in KvK, the other whales have made it clear there’s simply nothing we can do, and now everyone’s just looking to transfer out. It feels like our great server just tanked overnight as soon as the man child made it clear he could attack whoever he wanted with total immunity.

My question is, is this really all it takes? People could band together and rally his troops away at a huge cost to their own troops, but troop loss doesn’t seem like it’s a big deal at that level of whalehood. Can anyone with a small peepee just dump a ridiculous sum of money into the game and invalidate an entire server worth of good will and collaboration?