Only challenge there is is progressing faster than those who have been here longer or spend/"exploit" and the only fun there is in the game is what you make of it. Honestly around the first week or two of playing you realize how boring and tedious the game is with a combat system that works on brute strength and wait times for building, training, and article collecting that rival grass growth.

Well, if you're talking about the city level, it's totally meaningless (maybe except for ego ^^).

Or more precisely, it's crippling.

It only gives you more difficult quests (raiding or besieging impossibly high level cities) and puts you in harder tiers in tournaments, where you have to compete with 2 1/2 years old veterans players.

So if some fools want to get there in a matter of months or even weeks by spending crazy money... Well, it's their problem, after all. ^^

Well its no wonder then many don't make it high levels and the ones that do arent very active.

This game lacks something to play daily. Events that make u loose instead of winning doesnt help.

I currently find there are too many things to do everyday.

Back in the old times, there were only 2 tournaments per month and 5 quests per day. There was no coalition daily quests.

At least we had time to live and the game wasn't hogging time from real life like now, as we feel compelled to play them...

ONLINE.ALIEN said:

Well its no wonder then many don't make it high levels and the ones that do arent very active.

This game lacks something to play daily. Events that make u loose instead of winning doesnt help.

The game is too shallow, buying stuff isnt gameplay. Give people a reason to play.

Greetings Archon !

Any new MMO's out there worth looking into?  Inbox me if you have suggestion's.

Many of us have been survivors of MMO's of the past and even prior to the great Facebook era and know full well when the game's progress suddenly exceeds it's perceived natural progression then it is time to move on. It is displaying classic symptoms of a dying game and all the fancy new items, PVP tourney's and Drachma packages are the Closeout specials.

I agree with most of your comment RIX. It's at the point now where it's become more of a chore than a game and unless your willing to spend on secret paths raiding takes too long so your stuck raiding local cities. There's not much strategy to this game, hide your defensive units (or at least leave but a few out), spend your resources and keep them low so when you get raided the enemy gets little, play just high enough Persian positions so you don't lose more units than you can afford but still get a descent payout, hope you have dominion activators so you don't have to sit and wait while you do quests. It's all just very tedious. And the worst of it is all these new coalitions coming out but are not able to advance in rankings due to too few members, they just can't compete. I do agree with you.