Plarium is in business to make money, the entire game revolves around the leader boards (tournament rankings) and peoples willingness to spend obscene amounts of money to get to the top (over 1k US per night).
Notice the graphics are sub par to the point they are in line with commodore 64 games and the entire engine is a clone. That's why the simple bugs don't get fixed unless it effects the paying customer. There is no dev team, please.... The graphics alone tell that story.
If a problem such as troops bought with a visa die off do to lack of upkeep rss the paying customer gets pi ssed off and the problem is fixed ASAP. If a non paying customer utilizes intelligent balanced play or figures out the BG algorithm and manages to place in the leader boards trust me those paying customers were not going to put up with that and it was fixed.
Enough rant, been gaming for 20 years and never heard of pay-to-win until 6 weeks ago and its repulsive.. I will go back to balanced pay-to-play and stay clear of unbalanced free-to-pretend-play social games.
Well said!!.