Right its just a little change keep the bodygards the same as they are but have the option to pay the full cost aswell?

The option to pay the full cost was deliberately removed to keep defence in line with wack.

In other words, wack has to be trained over time; so as a counterbalance bodyguards have to be trained over time instead of just "boom, 175 bgs all paid up."

No i dont think that was the point here i think bgs was changed because everyone moaning they never get iwp so this way the can but why not still have the option to pay the full cost for those wealthy enough?

Because why is it not conducive to good gameplay that, all other factors being equal, you could get to the bodyguard cap with a single click, whereas the time it would take me to challenge your defence is upwards of 100 days (at a conservative estimate?)

If you allowed someone to pay the full price upfront, then you'd have to allow someone to buy all their kills up front? As Guevara stated, the staged purchase process is to allow for a gradual increase over time. If you have the money to burn, you can buy them all up front, and within 10 days have them all fully trained and a good few at 130hp to boot. even if you average 4 kills a day, its going to be closer to 300 days for someone to shoot through all your bodyguards and your rank boosts and HQ defences.

And no, this is not a call to allow someone to but 1000 credits and click a button titled convert Credits to kills.

How is it? This game is all about balances. If you allow people to drop cash to super boost their BGs, then you have to allow for the opposite to maintain the balances, otherwise you end up with stagnation. The fun part of the game is that things can change relatively quickly. Poit of fact, Chicago. in 24 hours it went from the strongest city in game to one of the weakest, just completely imploded. This would have been a lot harder if people could just decide when a war broke out to buy 175 fully trained BGs, meaning I go from needing a 200 kill gun to a 1000 kill gun in an instant.

So perhaps if you understood more about how the game is designed and developed instead of falsely ridiculing peoples points, you'd get further.

War-Munger, please try to articulate your response better and refrain from foul language, its not necessary.

The points made by Chris are very valid and are certainly not bullshit. I share the same view that the current process is correct to be staged, as has been mentioned we did previously have a system where people could pay the full cost for the entire thing and we fought for a very long time to get that changed, so any request to move backwards is always going to be met with people opposing it.

I think Chris' final comment though hit the nail firmly on the head, you either don't understand the game or haven't even bothered to try. I would gladly help tutor you though in how to play, feel free to contact me.