XP times four? Could it be you guys are a little divorced from reality?

OK. I have to agree here...

It really isn't that difficult. Way back when in the late 1990s I attended a browser game developers' convention. Secret is to make all items available by either investing game time or money. Not have unfair advantages for buyers like a whole Mk +1 for tankoins vs. crystals. If you even things out that way the impatient players will invest money while the non-buyers are happy too. Then you concentrate on either developing good missions or new items. If you really want to do swell, you even listen to what the players would like to see in your game. But then, they said that that was a customer-oriented approach. I don't even know whether there is a Russian expression for "customer orientation". The closest word seems to be Мошенничество ...

For lower to middle ranks there is a big disadvantage if ranking happens faster than you can pile up crystals. Why would one like that?

Will you share it? It seems to be completely beyond me.

The little bit of hope I have entertained over the summer is beginning to vanish into thin air. I've heard people who do not even begin to realize how the imbalance between xp and crystals forces you into buying, whether you want it or not. Even now I see people passing by me in ranks that don't even begin to own a Mk3. They will find themselves in a Catch 22 soon. Ah, say what you will - at least they have a great Covid vaccine in Russia. ???