I challange dj or any others that can not think their way around basic logic --- to try and make a new account.
Try to earn glory points to unlock basic troops and upgrade galleys - without the use of emporia that are locked to low level players, and tourneys or c.c. that you need to be in a top coalitoin that is scoring well to earn.
No player starting in sparta will pay hundreds of dollars to earn a handful of glory points or upgrade sketches - for a game stacked against them this hard.
To save sparta we need to make it possible for new players to grow - so far the only thing done to help is a mistake that gave them cheap access to packages. Now that is gone as well.