Truthfully this seems like an alright game, that is a lot of fun. At the same time there are real game breaking virtues about it.
In my opinion, the biggest one is the truce function. On Wednesday I had an emergency at work, and had to come in on my days off and work Thursday and Friday as well. I ended up sleeping on a cot on the floor on my shift off, but did manage to throw a truce flag out on Thursday night, I had perhaps a minute or two of spare time to log on, on someone's laptop (it is blocked at work).
I get home late Friday night, and try to throw myself into truce. I'm getting hammered at my biggest city, but I can't because there seems to constantly be "armies marching towards it". I go to bed, go to work this morning, come back and the city is dead.
Now that in my opinion is one of the worst aspects of the game. There is nothing beyond a half day of being away from it. I wasn't even protected for 24 hours. Now what could I have done if I took a vacation for a few days, or another emergency cropped up.
Shouldn't there be an option to "freeze" everything and then come back when you have a chance to play? No resources, no research, troops freeze and aren't trained.
The oddest part is that I had three truce flags, and I learned now that there is a cool down period before you can use another one. There is really no effective way to take a break from this game.
By the way, I was around 110K prestige on server two, with around 13K Archers, 13K swordsmen, 300 Ballistas, and 3000 archers towers, plus other assorted things. It wasn't as if I wasn't protected, but over the course of that time period they were reduced to nothing.
It would be nice if they implemented something like the "freezing" I suggested.
edit: It should also be noted that my opponent wasn't much bigger than me, maybe 10K prestige, but he simply had a bigger army (and I didn't have a chance to reinforce from my other two cities) and eventually just wore me down.
It's just tough to lose your best city to RL and you can't do anything about, because they'll just wait for the measly truce to expire and continue to rape when it wears off.




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