I myself welcome the woodelves (or whatever they are). Somebody elsewhere said that the orc chapter buildings are ugly and I myself am at least absolutely fed up with the color of orc chapter cities. In my local server I have a habit of visiting all my neighbours (and I have a lot of them) and many of those have advanced well into the orc chapter.... aaaargh!!!, my eyes, my eyes
. Matter of taste ofc.
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Very much to the point, if someone with a fully developed city DOES go back and start a new city, they'll discover that Elvenar is now a DIFFERENT game than the one that they remember and, I would suggest, it's now a much better game.
No. It will be only harder for new starters. People will have to build more on less space.
I first played this a little over a year ago my in my local server, deleted, and early this year started "for real" and during that time so much had changed that it felt refreshing.
Then... !!tadaa!!
magic academy appeared. Don't get me wrong I find some of the spells quite useful and such but the building... I've filled buckets with tears of frustration moving that thing around trying to make space for all buildings. And the academy comes into the play quite early, such a big building and that point in the game you parctically must do the task because you need every coin and supply you can get from the tasks. And now this fighting thing - not that easy to get expansions anymore. It's easy to say that you can always negotiate but a new player has so many things, upgrading buildings etc that clearing a province (or three) to get an expansion is a real pain.
When I started here early August it wasn't that different really I was lucky enough to get expansion through fighting and basically get my economy up and running before the battle update, I can now negotiate. My friend on the other hand was unlucky and started just week before the battle update - he feels he was stopped dead on his tracks. He also knows the game from local server but doesn't think he's discovered a better game. When I ask he shrugs and says his city is still there, but... I think we have another ghost town on the map.