"Premium" features available

As of today, Ikariam is now offering "premium features" for those who are willing to pay to play the game. Here is what was posted about it on the Ikariam board:

Quote :

Hello dear Islanders,
as many of you were awaiting, it is time to integrate some premium features into Ikariam.

You will be able to order these features via our inter-currency "Ambrosia" (like Dark Matter, Rubies etc.). By buying Ambrosia you may order the premium features that will show up as 4 different "Advisors".


Quick and easy list of Advisors:

1. 20% more Advisor for each Luxury Good :
there is one premium feature for 20% more marble, one for 20% more crystal glass, one for 20% more wine and one for 20% more sulphur, and you can choose between them... so you have to buy all to receive 20% more of all


2. 5% more Building Materials Advisor :
if you buy all Advisor´s you receive 20% more building material

3. Empire View :
list how many troops / which building levels etc. in every city/town

4. Merchant :
what is it and how to use it? You call e.g. a merchant who buy´s crystal glass (with x Ambrosia) and trade it into something else. So e.g. 1k crystal glass into 2k building material or 1k crystal glass into 1k marble. After the successful trade the merchant disappears and you have to order a new one for your next trading.

Details for the merchant trade ratios:
* luxury goods (crystal glass, marble, sulphur, wine) : luxury goods = 1:1
* luxury goods : building material = 1:2



Premium features will be introduced today or in the next few days on the International -> Ikariam TestServer <- and probably next week on Ikariam.org .

If you ask me, premium features are always a bad idea. Not only will this give an unfair advantage to those who have the money to pay to play, it will also undermine the time that we have spent trying to fairly upgrade our colonies.

ummm im having a difficult time understanding what these new features do so i dont know
but i like the empire view feature

Premium is called 'Ikariam PLUS' and is avaliable today, it looks unfair to me