@Aetius I've thought of starting on an old server before but the thing that always stopped me was the heroes. There is no way that somebody could start from scratch and have a competitive hero on a 2 year-old server. How often would that player get to attack? Once a month maybe? Then back to rebuilding to replacing losses so that they would have equitable numbers of troops as other players. It is all fine and good if the alliances there are helpful and give you cities and resources but I have a hard time believing that they would be willing to give you the massive amounts of resources for as many months as it would take to grind out competitive heroes. We're not just talking main hero here, but additional heroes for arch trade-fire or mech attacks and poli heroes for wall/defensive and resource-generation purposes.
Really, the only way it would be feasible within an acceptable time frame is by taking a quitting player's account and, for me, that's just not an attractive option. I like to build for myself, thank you very much.



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