While I am a big fan of capitalism and fully believe you have a right to make money with this game, I feel this is a step too far. The premium features as they existed until now, allowing you to rush production but still requiring you to have the resources to produce, provided perfect balance. It allowed you to generate income by providing players with an advantage they could purchase with gold, but limited the impact of this advantage by requiring them to have the same resources as everyone else, so as to slow their hurried growth. By now allowing players to both rush production and negate the need for resources, any noob with a $100 bill or two can log on to Grepolis and take over. While you will see increased revenue coming from some players who enjoy compensating for their inadequacies with gold, as they previously did with bots, your overall base of players will likely decrease since most will be unwilling to participate in a game that is just about who can spend the most. This decrease in participation will lead to less profits as you will only be able to milk so much from your significantly smaller pool of players. So, this upgrade will inevitably be bad for all except the bot type players. Please, do not go through with this and ruin Grepolis. As far as the inventory goes, I am neutral. It seems harmless, so knock yourself out.
