I have a full Gringo.. but to be honest its not as good as you think.
The weapons for duel are now weak - the male oktoberfest weapons are better for defending. The jaguar weapons are better for attacking.
The clothes are weak as a set. Only the hat and the belt are good.
The animal set are good, its the fastest... but 3-4 sec difference isnt worth 100 million
Noooo bro you cant just say the clothing set is weak. If you are above level 180 you gain around 4k skill points FOR FREE. The clothing bonuses + set bonuses have a very high multiplier that give a lot of skill points. With Gringo clothes you can easily work in a very difficult jobs with ease. I agree that the hat and belt are very OP and I don't think they will ever make individual items as strong as these 2.
I agree with the weapons , they are mostly for FF , even a damager will benefit from Gringo weapons even it has HP. The rifle is one of the best if not the best in Adventures , you have a lot of HP , a lot of Dodge , a lot of aim and a lot of Charisma for critical hits , all in all its good in all aspects. Dueling weapon is also good if its upgraded but with todays sets you can get a better dueling weapon with high damage for duels. The animal set is good but it couldve been better if the speed of the horse was more than 280%.
In general , Gringo is a very broken set which can give you TONS of skill points just for wearing the set , lets say you are level 20ish , you will be able to work in the middle with Gringo clothes and like i said at some point you will have so many skill points just by wearing the set , if it gives me 4200 skill points at level 187 imagine at level 220 and above!
They can start making some national events, not only on international speed servers. Gap would be smaller between gringo people and non gringo ones. After that it would become kinda high end basic equipment meaning space for better sets. But, as we have seen, Black Friday set is still with the same price to buy compared to Conte set which is less expensive and better. Again, logic..... Most of gringo is won during events when dobby wasnt that popular and well known. So, maybe small % of winner are legit winners I would say.
I agree , we need more national events and the way of winning Gringo should not be only for the hardcore 15s clickers , they should give equal opportunities to every aspect of the game , Adventures , Crafting , Experience , Duels , FF's , Achievements , Construction and even some special categories.
InnoGames doesnt reduce the price of old sets , like you said Black Friday is still the same price but compared to Comte set which is less expensive and way better , they dont reduce the prices because of collectors , collectors will not care if the price is the same as 10 years old which is sad , in reality , they care a lot about collectors hence you see such high prices on old sets , a normal person will not waste so much money for a set that was released 5-10 years ago but collectors will throw their money like its nothing and thats what InnoGames is constantly doing because they are players that do that every time sadly.
InnoGames POV: We release a set and we price it at 2800 nuggets , after 3-5 years , we make another similar but better set thats more tha half the price of the other 1200 nuggets. Surely this community is so dumb that they think we will hear their feedback , we will not , hence, we will leave the price of the old set as it is with a small 5-10% discount but also sell the new one in a much more reasonable price. 90% of the players will buy Comte on a new world ( 70-75% on old worlds ) , more than 80% will buy Black Friday on a new world ( 60-70% on old worlds ) and more than 65% will buy both ( 50% on old worlds ) , its a win win situation for them.