For the past couple of updates, I have a sense the admins really lack a general grand strategy (or philosophy) about this game is really about. Let me elaborate:
somehow each update is turning the game into a completely new direction, no wonder the players are confused..the admin do not have a general idea of how the game should be like, and are just patching holes after each update(which also creates more holes).
I think the admin needs to really sit down and think about what kind of game do they want to make, at one point they encouraged us to attack, now they make the attacks so hard that we want to just build factories, except now factories are more and more expensive...
1) Do you want to make this game attack-oriented or Sim-city oriented? (Doing a half-half will frustrate a lot of people)
2) How fast the pace should be? (I think the game pace(such as time cost/troop speed) was pretty reasonable until this most recent update make it snail slow)
3) How fast do you want people collect resources? If you give ppl too much resources, they wont attack)