Since it will probably take a very long time to get your badge achievements (although they have been dramatically reduced already) here is a sneak peak on how the completed badges will look like in your profile:
Dark Winds Badge (500 Orc Shamans)
Scaly Inferno Badge (500 Laculfas)
Lion Tamer Badge (750 Furymanes)
Silk Spinner Badge (7500 Silk Burrowers)
Crystal Wings Badge (1500 Crystal Gargoyles)
Billanger Down Under Badge (500 Billangers)
Right now there is an interesting discussion going on at the PK forums concerning the new items(platinum/special gloves/boots) coming wednesday.
Due to the decremented mining and chopping times it is expected that prices for basic resources like wood/stone/ironore will drop dramatically (about 75%).
According to this it might be a good idea not to stockpile these items and sell them as soon as possible.
For those of you (constructors) depending on these items, it may be best to postpone purchases until then to get cheaper prices.
Expected prices for platinum: 20 food vs. 3000 gold
Thus resulting in an average value for:
crafting gloves – 92 food vs. 13300 gold
chopping gloves – 212 food vs. 31300 gold
mining gloves – 72 food vs. 10300 gold
magnetic boots – 55 food vs. 7700 gold
gardener boots – 212 food vs. 31300 gold
explorer boots – 112 food vs. 16300 gold
Further there is a lot of ruby stuff coming:
For a sneak peek look here.
As for the upcoming content update of PK on february 2nd, I included the new resource platinum on the main page although my database has no prices for this yet.
Additionally to this the product chains for the new gloves and boots have been included into category other items.
Due to the missing platinum prices don’t trust those prices for now.
Further there has been some progress in layout for the strategy page, content still is just a fast writeup and not yet translated into english.
As I promised there are some more improvements to the site.