We have seen a lot of changes recently with the professed purpose of "Leveling the playing field." My question is why? From a financial perspective, it makes no sense. People spend money on this game to get an advantage. The people that are at the top of the game spend even more money to stay there, and the people that are near the top but not there yet spend money to try to get there. The small casual player doesn't spend money and never will and eventually quit.

By leveling the playing field you are undoing the advantage that folks gained by spending money. We spent money to get HH (portrait, adv tele, ...), we got the HH so that we could take HCs, we took HCs so that we could draft and use the warriors to farm to level our HCs, we bought materials to improve our heros so that we could take bigger HCs and colonize more players.

See the trend, we BOUGHT stuff to get an advantage and now you take away a big part of the advantage that we spent money to get.

So why will players spend money on Evony now???? No need to take a HC, they are almost useless now, especially the lvl12s.

HHs are still important, but everyone expects them to be nerfed next so new players will just not worry about them.

AND HERE IS THE BIG KEY. Many of the players on new servers are just transplants from older servers. They figured out that they need to spend money early in the game to gain the advantage that makes this game fun. But now the number of players looking to move to new servers is dropping quickly. Players are just waiting for the press release stating that one of the most successful MMPORGs has closed up shop.

EVONY, you had the best and most addicting game of its type and have ruined it. BUT IT ISN'T TOO LATE.

Listen to your players, I MEAN REALLY LISTEN. Fix things that are broken and "UNFIX" many of your so called "FIXES".

Make this game fun again.