I've played since W1, I'm sure maybe a few who read this have as well. This game is not the same as it used to be, whether or not you think its for the better it has changed. In my opinion, the game peaked around World 20ish and from there has been getting less and less entertaining (I'm still here though and that's because I have a itching to win a world and quit this game forever lol.) Premium features killed this game, I understand inno has to make money, but really 20% res boosts, instant builds, tagging features, command & village notes sharing, and automatic noble train nonsense (I know its not just a premium feature but still shouldn't exist) is too much. All of this takes away from the actual skill, if you can call anything online a skill, of the game. 20% res boost replaces some amount of farming or increases resources pulled in while instant building gives old players who use premium a huge advantage. No wonder no one new wants to play, because they can't get past the same 2000 players that play on every world and grow villages 5x faster than anyone else. Don't even get me started on tagging, and the automatic noble trains (or whatever its called)? Let's just make it impossible for new players to snipe anything coming at them. command and village notes sharing takes away from coordination as well, why do we need forums anymore? Premades also suck, but only the same 100 people who win those consistently enjoy those. World ending scenarios suck as well, World 1 went on forever (I didn't stay until the end.) Everyone assumed that it would go on until the last player standing, which made everyone hungry to fight, tribes disbanded on a whim, and you actually had to be sure you trusted your personal allies, it wasn't an achievement to reach 100, because all you wanted were 5-10 that you knew had your back. Worthless events that handed out free boosts didn't exist either, so it wasn't corny. Farm assistant is another thing, sure it saves time. But it speeds up growth, saving 3 hours to farm is 3 hours to comb through villages and build them. And with account manager all you have to get online and do is attack and defend. THAT is why this game is ruined, because it doesn't take any amount of "skill." All it takes is who buys premium first. To end this, I made it to 13 million points on World 1 with no premium. It was fun because I didnt have the ability comb through 400 villages in 10 minutes. I had to go through each one and build its buildings and build its troops manually. This game died when 2 things happened, premium features became outrageous, and the end game scenario was introduced.
