Funny, that's -exactly- how Achaea works. You pay to get things that make your life easier, but none are necessary to reach a top spot, whether that top spot be a guildmaster, head of a religious order, leader of a city-state, top person in terms of xp, top explorer, etc.
Every single thing you can purchase with real money in Achaea can be gotten via other methods, without exception, and spending real-life money can't really help you at all with the stuff that we view as most important in the game: the politics.
--matt
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