Introduction
We, [ECA] Elite Commands Army from Kingdom #29 Stalfket, most of the other clans and many other kingdoms boycott the latest update from the 7th of July 2016. We stopped spending money on the game immediately and won't do until further notice.

What happened?
The last update transformed the game into a actual pay-to-win game. Unless the player is rich and doesn't care about money, players will never be able to reach the high-end levels of buildings, knowledges and hero skills. Until now, level 21 was reached in 6 months, or faster, which was fine. With the introduction of 5 additional levels Plarium made it impossible for casual gamers, small paygamers and even bigger paygamers to reach that content. Only players with really loose pockets (about thousands of US Dollars) will reach that level soon and have a big advantage.

Plarium also introduced new knowledges and new hero skills. The knowledges can only be started, when you upgrade your city level to 22 or higher - which takes weeks, months or even years. So far it's no big deal. But here's the hook: The new knowledges will make the player allmighty. It's like activating a god-mode cheat.

• Troop headcount on marches will be increased
• Troop headcount on onslaughts will be increased
• Offense, defense and health will be increased
• Enemy offense, defense and health can be reduced

All of this is high-end content. Without this players won't be able to defend theirselves against monsters with 500.000.000 influence and above, as the rich enemy is able attack with full force and not just with 262k troops (max. troop headcount before the update).

With the latest update a fifth tier of warriors is available. But to unlock this players have to finish most of the buildings and knowledges mentioned above. And we remember: This either takes ages or costs alot of money. And if they are unlocked, they are way to unbalanced, as knowledges and hero skills on offense, defense and health add percentage to the initial value.

In addition to all the time or money you have to spend, the new content will cost way too many ingame-resources.

What we want!

• balance all troops t1 - t5
• reduce the time for upgrades in general
• reduce the costs of upgrades (resources and gold)
• increase the gold (10x times) and the amount of items in bank offers
• increase the gained hero experience for fighting and upgrading
• reduce the costs for items in the item store in general
• finally introduce the the often mentioned gift-function

We feel ripped! If Plarium doesn't meet our requirements, we will stop playing this game at all