Quote Originally Posted by chinothepony View Post
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.
Actually, it's only been out for about a year, and never had the problems Evony has. I started playing Tribal Wars just after it came out to, and it also didn't have the issues we have here. In fact, neither game has had the massive changes Evony has had. Their devs developed well thought out games, and worked out their bugs while in BETA. Evony offically come out of BETA almost a month ago, then had to go back into it because the devs caused more problems then they solved. Had they kept the original Civony mechanics, and just worked out the technical bugs, then this game wouldn't have so many people griping and leaving.