for people read posts or play the game long enough, we all know farming and making gold suck in this game. Maybe we can make some suggestions for dev team to improve in the coming updates, instead of leaving the the game. One benefit to not-so-hard-cord players is being able to advance to new age, use new battle units, and enjoy playing game at time when people don't need to work. For dev team, they can have more players and active communities. More active players can mean more chances to sell and turn the game into real money. After all, having only active hard core players is not good enough for the dev team, and the game is boring without other high level of players and active long_term participation. Maintaining active and long term game app is difficult for all cell phone game developer. My suggestion to improve the slow enconomy / upgrade is not to increase the production amount per hour and shorten upgrade time, but to proportion requirement just like building wonders now. At least, people can save up and deposit adequate quantity of resources towards buildings/units/upgrades, and not losing a big chunk of resources while cavalry make multiple raids at people's base. Stopping horse units and defending resources are not that easy any more after bolstering calveries attach points in the new patch.