The first big mistake was the part when you took away the minus grain barrier. It is not realistic to have an army your city can not support. Plus it made it possible for even someone that put 0 work in his city to just go buy troops and have an army with unlogical proportions compared to the work he put on his city. And you did that because you wanted us to buy more packages and troops.... For real now? A resource based game with no actual need for a sufficient resource flow??? But we played along with it so its our mistake aswell...
Then there was the change wich was never mentioned anywere in news in the battle algorithm proportional calculation. Do not think those of us that actually study the reports and game mechanics did not notice that you lets say put in a part of PP to it so what needs to die will die no matter how much you outnumber your opponent. Reason? Of course money so we need to revive more.... again we played along so we are to blame for it too.
Now the latest changes just put the last drop into it.... Kill the strategy and skilled gameplay completelly and make this game a money grinder where the only thing needs to be done is shovel money on it to have you convert it to bits and bytes, trash them and go rebuy them to achieve victory....
No skills requiered at all.... no strategy or need for any kind of strategic planning.... simply go fetch your credit card pay and win... And i ask of you this? What excactly am i supposed to feel satisfied about this way??? Open your ears to what real gamers try to tell you here .... We are perfectly ok with money give advantage ... we are perfectly ok with spend our money for a game we enjoy and have fun on... We are perfectly ok with you (plarium) as a business need to make money ... What we are not ok with is to throw money here on this for no reason just to fill your bank accounts when you do NOT provide us with a service/game that is enjoyable to log on and play.
You keep forgetting we are here to spend our free time fighting together with our friends and enjoy the achievement of a good coordinated plan lead us to a great victory or accomplish an achievement.
By the way Alyona .... the excuse about players asking for all that is simply lame.... I see many people here and on skype room asking you to make this game strategic again with 0 results... So stop hidding behind your little finger there... Before you claim as a company that you provide great games for hardcore gamers at least try to understand what a real gamer really wants... And that is not a 0 strategy/skill money grinder to shovel money on...
I do not regrett the time or money i put on this as i had lots of fun in the past and i also got the chance to meet a few great people here. But the way you turned this now into a money and time wasting pay to win charade i really can not find any reason to spend another cent on it...
I will say 1 more time, you actually should be happy with so many people trying to tell you what is going the wrong way here... grown ups with gaming past that put in their free time to give you the feedback instead of just turn their back on it for good and leave you with an empty map... In my real life business i would be really happy to have people do that for free for me. Do not bet too much on the "sunk cost effect" here... you will soon realize that you are killing what could be a great game but as it seems it will be only when it is too late.
And your solution is: A new server and the VIP club.... I really wonder if anyone there actually listening/reading anything here... The real issue is the game ballance between strategic / skilled gameplay and money advantages. And the absence of any kind of great gaming experience here anymore...