I’m morbidly fascinated with this thread.
The title isn’t really on point because you would have to grind or do SOMETHING besides log in every few weeks.
If we got repairable tools you would log in every so often, look at all of your broken tools, and be even less incented to play.
Dailies have been in the game since before I started,I’m pretty sure. Weekly too. Coins and experience.
You get more if you do stuff.
Here’s a free AoE tool for logging in:
Keep at it here’s another one:
Here’s one for hitting level 50
Here’s another one for doing random stuff
At some point, they just throw you tens of thousands of experience and enough coin to buy another one because they’ve wasted so much of your time watching the little boxes open to give you free stuff:
Did you take any time to check this out?
You can just whip up a totem and start gathering coins if you like. If you log in for 15 minutes they give you enough coin to buy a chrysominter.