I have never used a ?third party program? in my life, let alone on Evony, and this is not a thread about people who do or did use them, though I must admit that I definitely understand why they did.

This is a very addictive game and at the beginning it was also fun, as a noob I didn?t know anything about conquering cities or NPCs so I actually thought it would be better to build up from scratch and I really enjoyed doing that. I think there are a lot of players who even now genuinely enjoy that aspect of the game, building new cities from scratch, but how does the saying go? this is a war game, not Farmville?

But now that?s exactly what it has become. Once the allure of building cities and joining/creating alliances wears off, you realize that it is a war game and the only way to survive and continue enjoying it is to have and maintain a substantially larger army than your enemies and the only way to feed said army is to FARM CONSTANTLY.

I am willing to bet that for most players, even those with ?small? armies, farming takes up over half the time they devote to this game. That means that people are farming far more often than they are warring/attacking other people. In alliances, it?s so common to hear ?just on to send the farmers out? more than actual conversation, people are suiciding troops because even if they spend all the time they can farming it?s often still not enough to support a substantial army.

In short, this once fun game has now become a chore. Evony has now become BORING. Not just boring, but redundant and tedious. Pointless.

If you do not find some solution or way to ease this issue of farming/maintaining troops, then players will continue to risk suspension or permanent banning just to be a little less frustrated and bored. And no, I am not stating that this is the opinion of ALL players, but it is certainly the opinion of a great many as evidenced by the number of players caught up in these last few sweeps.

I am a customer, a paying one at that, and I am really frustrated with this game and seriously considering quitting. And if I do quit count on me asking for my money back. I know you guys like to delete and close threads, but if you care at all for your customers and the continued existence of this game then listen and actually try coming up with a final solution for the heart of this issue instead of relying on quick fixes that will only continue to arise and cause you to lose more members.

Gia