Rogue Squirrel : you are only on one side of the coin. For that you are right, but not for the rest. The design of Dominations includes increasing upgrading times from age to age. In ADDITION many buildings in Cold War and space age have TWO upgrade steps, not one as in most of the other ages. Many players have invested much effort to reach space age and started just consolidating their base.
Also we have definitely big bugs in the game: crashing issues, war match making, actually the missing recordings of war attacks, not talking about the cheating issues. All those are in the game and nothing is changing since months and years. Really every update have had big bugs at introduction, I expect the same for digital age.
Introducing DA now will not bring so much money as postpone it - every bet on that from my side. I am Level 278 and will NOT crown anything to reach 285. I have done the opposite as I was Cold War age and space age was released. One reason is that it cost you around the double amount of crowns to jump from 280 to 285 compared with from 241 to 246.
Digital age will mean: 17 million gold, 12 or 15 workers for 17 days if it’s not provided instantly with a rush. After that 12 days to upgrade your oil raffiniert and then 17 days each to upgrade factory, airstrip, library, castle, university and maybe museum. Well, that’s a boring outlook isn’t it?