That's incorrect.
You still have to work hard to earn those shells by trading somehow. EC is a lot easier to get than earning gralats to get a BAR or a very expensive gun. You still have to dig the shells or hustle your way into getting the shells, but either method of obtaining gralats will take a far longer time than earning EC. That's my opinion because EC isn't much of a challenge.
Sorry but this is not a good idea at all. The thing that keeps era alive and kicking is the fact that you need skills to win events and thats a great part of era. Also buying Event Coins with iTunes will be a bad idea because it will remove the rarity of EC items and will cause everyone to gas Flamethrowers or Chemical Guns, etc.
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its not fair old players use to gain ecs easily and now when more players came era made earning ecs harder at least 1 ec every 2or3 days thats fair enough there is people cant win events all the people who dont want that to work those who do events all day. so what happened why ecs giveaway decreased whats the reason or the problem ?
at least admins should make a system or a board when and what time ecs will given so people can know when to log on and get it since free ecs now days rare