I have played from the beginning, and I really enjoy how they improved it over the years. It is faster to level up if you are just starting, they increased the resources received from the caravans and farms if you get attacked you can still advance. Oil farming is still a little rough and I am top age. So don’t be discouraged if you can’t advance fast for oil required things for I am also catching up even tho most top aged peers has better upgrades. It is still fun watching each building change with each upgrade. It seems when each age is released the attack tactic changes for all levels so don’t worry if your army needs adjustment or it seems like you can’t attack the levels you were able to before keep trying new ways. Keep going! The only thing I would like to change is alliance war pairing for even tho I am level 344 my alliance is lower level than me and it is hard for them to attack or we get paired with ones that just wipe us even tho my army is lower, my resource buildings are higher so I can’t even attack them strongly. I know you guys are trying so hard and maybe it is just not possible at the moment to pair with equal powered alliances all the time for I don’t want you to fix it and then we are the alliance that just wipes them out everytime. Just looking for more evenly paired wars.

The IGM (in game messaging) is the worst I’ve seen in a game. The battles are not that fun because the troops do CRAZY things no battle troops would do;they’re very willy nilly. E.g. long range siege troops are defenseless, but even though you drop archers(or later, riflemen)with them they won’t stay with them, they run off. The general acts the craziest:drop him into a battle and he can only think about raiding, even if the men ‘next door’ could be saved by him. There’s a rally button, but then all the troops across the board drop everything and come, even if they’re in the middle of a heated battle themselves, which gets them killed often. So in other words, you have little control. They also have long standing glitches. Be careful to remember where you put your traps in your city, because often when you’re making your war city it glitches above the places that you have your traps, so you’re stuck wondering, Why can’t I put my wall or catapult here? I have nothing else here! Well dummy, in your’other’ village you’ve got a trap in that same area. Move all traps to the edge of town village before starting- or rearranging-your war city. Most frustrating is the troop donation glitch, which has always been a problem. You can play the game for free, which I love!

Let me start by saying this game is awesome. Much more fun and involving than some of the others. Really interesting how you have multiple options and variables to chose from. Only problem I have is the paying, I think people that can play have a very unfair advantage. Only way I could possibly equal it out is with crowns, but those are so hard to get for free that it becomes impossible to enjoy fully. I think it would be nice if you could only buy same age armies instead of stuff like atomic and higher up age troops. So for example if a medical age could only buy armies that are available in the medical age. I’m sorry if this is confusing I just hope you understand what I’m trying to convey. If it seems like I’m highlighting the bad about this, I'm defiantly not. I’m just trying to explain what I consider as drawbacks. Aside from this it is really great. The alliance I’m currently in is very active and friendly. Science I joined I’ve been able to improve my game. I really hope Big Huge Games reads this and can continue releasing updates. Already they have a massive success, I just think if they continue fine tuning it would be even bigger. Again this is just my humble opinion please take this review into consideration and keep up the good work! ( Note: I think this game turns into more of a cash grab as you progress into the ages. Honestly I think we need more ways to get free crowns easily.)