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Presently all six civs are fully available. I am not sure how we could go backwards and limit that without people getting angry.

As for the obsolete gear, there isn't much way to deal with it. The game just has way too many common and uncommon items. Players graduate to Epic and Legendary stuff pretty quickly. Rather than try to improve the market by improving those old items, new Legendary items have been introduced. I think that has helped.

 

You can always limit yourself to only use up to uncommon gear, if you want to have this challenge

 

Some while ago when waiting for Microsoft servers during maintenance times, I put together a spreadsheet listing all the gear in the game. I've since added the 19 new legendary gear from the Athens quests.

Summary statistics:
Legendary items 101
Epic items 377
Rare Items 601
Uncommon items 449
Total count of gear that can be equipped: 1528.

This count includes:
Starting Pro civ. gear,
Gear from the various game stores,
Gear only obtainable as quest rewards,
Gear from chests.

So yes Andy, there is a whole lot of obsolete gear especially once you've reached lvl 40.

 

There sure is a lot. As referenced above, the game was quite different at launch than it was even a year later. The game was originally envisioned to have lots of civs needing access to lots of low-level, low-tier gear. But shortly after launch, the Devs adjusted things to both (1) expand access to rare, epic, and legendary items (which were originally trapped behind steep paywalls) and (2) rapidly decrease the time it took to get to Level 40.

These changes were well received, and I think the game ended up improving dramatically. But it did result in an absolute glut of obsolete low level gear.

As we move the game forward, we need to find the best targets for development. There are only so many developers with so much free time, etc. I am not sure there is an easy way to improve the existing gear. I would just as well see other areas of the game expand.

 

Creating these alternate versions of civs that are constrained by gear rules may be a good idea, but I'm just not convinced enough people would want them to warrant the effort necessary to finish that kind of project. If there was enough interest, I am sure it could be done. I know I am personally not really interested in having 3 duplicate civs.

 

Well, as long as you get to pick one extra milestone for each of those cities...