How to fix the gold issue.
Remove it.
Completely remove gold from the game. Instead, when you go to rank up the champ, if you have the basics, class, and alpha catalysts then you can rank that champ up. Same with leveling. If you have iso, then you can level up the champ. I feel like this would solve so many issues that many of us have been facing recently. As far as donations go, introduce a new alliance quest currency. Something a long the lines of if you complete a certain map, each member gets a certain amount of that currency. And is then used to donate for the next week. But to do maps 5x5 if you have to 100% 4 out of the 5 days and if you don’t then the next week you have to do 55554 and 100% all 5 days to get enough of the currency to do 5x5 again.
Arena crystals would no longer contain gold. Instead they would have to increase unit drops, add glory, add shards.
I understand this might be a little far fetched and probably wouldn’t end up working. But in my head it seems like a much better way to play this game. I’m sure there are things that I didn’t consider so please if you feel like this could be a good thing let me know. Or if you feel like this could never work let me know that too and tell me your thoughts. Thanks!