I never posted here in the past as I was just rolling with the changes, but had to respond to this. I'm a lvl 84 Gunpowder Age player. I have spent some money in the past, but stopped spending 2-3 months ago due to a host of issues with the game. I like the game and wanted to give the devs a chance....see if they fixed any of the issues. Unfortunately, every release/update since that time has made the game worse. The community has given feedback on major issues such as cheating/hacking, atrocious AI, lack of dev feedback, etc and have been basically ignored. Rather than fixing those issues we get updates that make the game worse. So, once again, how about the devs do this:
1 - Fix the absolutely horrible AI issues
2 - Deal with the cheaters/hackers
3 - Start providing feedback to the community
4 - When you get those issues fix, then you can work on balancing the game
The devs did do something though, they finally got the community to be unified. If you read through this thread, it is near unanimous that the HC nerf was too much and a very bad decision. Roll back the HC nerf....deal with the major issues and then work on balancing the game.
Lastly, at this point, it is difficult to not be cynical. We have an update with near 100% negative feedback. All the moderators has disappeared and we have some posts from new people that say the update was ok....mmmm.