Very very frustrating... I have now been on the new Game platform for 3 weeks and it's a disgusting mess...
The graphics are ugly, unprofessional in appearance, in lower resolution, with over-typed non-centered text, clumsy blurry graphics
Many small features don't work and the game locks up several times an hour.
The game is extremely slow and erratic
Interface is not as intuitive as the old one and more keystrokes are required to move between screens.
Game takes 5 x as long to load as old game
This is a downgraded version of the previous game and it was not ready to be rolled out - even as a Beta test. Several of my coalition mates have been on it for over 2 months and according to them Plarium is barely making any progress ironing out the bugs yet they are still switching over additional accounts to this trash platform... I have pretty much stopped playing from the account that Plarium switched because it is too tedious and unpleasant to manage my daily tasks. SWOE was already not a very enjoyable game to interface with but the new version is a lot worse.
My main account hasn't been switched over yet... that's the one where I spend $100 or more a month. If you switch that one over I'm out of here. Plarium can wave that revenue goodbye. Just giving you fair warning. If you don't make HUGE improvements to the new platform you're going to kill the game.