Couple of suggestions to bring back fun worlds to at least what the were a year or two ago. (We will never have worlds like when the game came out with the player base and decline of browser based games).
1.) Consolidate the player base.. Remove the country servers and actively promote the .net server.. You may have to let people use whatever language they want in order to not isolate non-english speakers.
2.) Reduce P2W. Buying resources was probably the worst thing to happen to TW and the amount the game has died since that introduction is incredible. Inno will never agree to this unless they can see an equal profit or greater. My solution would be to leave in PP to increase building times, buying flags, and the standard res boost. Premium/AM prices may have to go up in order to compensate for losses. But I would gladly pay the few extra dollars a month to eliminate resource buying.
3.) Bring back traditional world settings. At the very least go back to alternating worlds with old worlds/new world settings.
4.) Listen to the community.. Businesses that listen and react to community demands succeed. Sucking dry your remaining player base with no skill added pay features will continue the demise of this game. I have been playing this game for 10 years and this past year I have seen the greatest drop off in player base that I have seen in the previous 9.
I think you have a lot of good points, I wish Inno would listen to you
1) Maybe they should start by removing the .us and .uk servers, the people who play there already speak english. The less servers, the more players per server and the more fun the game is for everyone I think. Also less servers = less costs = more net profit right?
2) If Inno is prioritising money I think they would honestly make more if they worked on the game first to increase the number of players. All they have to do is remove buying/selling resources and limit how much you can reduce the building times (no more instant level 20 walls pls) and I believe a lot of the old player base would return. The PP/resource market feels like it killed the game. I think it would be a huge improvement to remove that and if they keep resource boosts, buying flags, limited building time decrease that wouldn't be too bad. If they think they're not making enough money with the new system, they can always get ads on the side, I don't think anyone would mind much tbh.
Or they could copy the league/dota skin system and allow players to buy purely cosmetic changes for premium points. Maybe they could create map graphical packages and sell them for quite a lot of rp. Or village graphical packages. They could also sell cheaper paladin and noblemen cosmetic changes.
4) I've been playing league of legends for a while now and one of the reasons they're so successful (imo) is that riot games is really good at listening to their players. The founders of riot were (and still are) gamers, they played many moba games and now they play league of legends. So they don't think like a company. They always release videos, ask for players' feedback on changes and actually listen to this. Like last season (less than a year ago) they released a thing called flex queue and no one liked it, a lot of the good players stopped playing ranked altogether. When riot noticed this, they first tried some changes and when the players still didn't like them they got rid of flex queue a few months later. They always try to keep in touch with their community too, like they have this thing called ask riot where players can send questions by mail and the more interesting ones get published on their website and answered by the riot founders themselves or other senior game designers. When players don't like patch updates, riot will listen to them and release hotfixes a few days later or make changes in the following patch (2 weeks). Sorry for the rant, but what I'm trying to say is: I think if inno was more open to/in-touch with their player base and actually listened to them and treated them as valued customers they would have more success with tribal wars (and their other games too I guess).
Servers have been getting smaller I've noticed and I just want the old TW back ;(
