Quote Originally Posted by Valin View Post
Also, defenses in Ikariam can only be boosted by 240%. And that takes a very long time to build up the wall to that level, and even then, rams can negate the bonus. Much more balanced battle system than Evony.
But Ikariam has been around for a while and sounds like they've had time to work out a lot of their bugs and balancing issues.

First step is always gamebreaking bugs.
2nd is bugs and balancing.

Balancing takes a lot of fine tuning and that usually takes a while.