thank you everyone for all the feedback coming through on this.

my rant and venting my spleen was not meant to be a discussion over the rights or wrongs of evony running the contest but a way of trying to get them to listen about sorting the real problems out before massively increasing the number of players through more advertising.

i have sent support requests in and comments through the in game system and had no reply to anything. I started this thread to try to get ideas across to help the evony team sort out finaces. we all know the incoming money would help pay for support staff and servers. which in turn would help sort out the lag and crash issues we have all experienced.

just to clarify a premium acct of $4 or $5 a month would generate $250,000.00 a month if only 1/10th of the players chose to take it.
by giving a few advantages to having a prem acct, such as being able to que 2 buildings , 2 research . a lot of players would consider it.

also we need to have a map sorted out so we can scroll across it. the prem acct could have more detailed map or diff map sizes available.

this is a great game and out does a lot of the competition but the lag and crash will kill the game off for serious players.

I just hope Evony staff sort things out before it is too late.

enough from me and my ranting now
cheers more beers
capcanuck