Kingdom: New Lands

Grindy game, that starts being fun and addictive that devolves with horrible AI / soldiers that turn into frustration. Lots of walking back and forth on a huge map. i'd say 30 perc limited strategy (player really doesn't have too many options, placement areas are determined for you), 70 perc walking back and forth. Your workers / soldiers are the dumbest group of npcs I've ever seen. Why as a monarch I cannot indicate where i want my archers or hunters at. Why am i defending one side of the map that i destroyed all portals when i need more troops on the other side. Something so basic is not permitted in this game. Why? there are 2 types defensive placement points, mounds of dirt for a wall and rocks for towers. You can't place these, you get what you get. Bad point is when you take down the "3rd" portal and they do a retaliation attack - you are toast because you get slammed and your towers are too far and few. I don't know if their strategy for replay value was to just make it very difficult for the player (poor balance later on) so the player just has to keep retrying starting the game over again. Another horrible implementation: the catapult. You get 1 per side, Why just one at a time? No clue, good question. it's the strongest unit imo. it goes behind the furthest wall. When the greed are attacking the furthest wall, your soldiers will start to retreat well BEFORE the wall falls (cowards) leaving your main strong unit (catapult) by itself (toast). So imagine 3 or 4 spawners at a wall, your soldiers run, and the only unit that could really take the spawners was just abandoned. Your soldiers are now behind another wall but w/o catapult (imagine infantry with no artillery support), - yep they are toast. Build a new catapult? It's also the absolutely slowest unit (boat may be slower) in the game so while you are waiting for a new catapult, any serious attack wave will demolish you. This is the level of idiocy the devs made of your soldiers. They are idiots or they intentionally did this to artificially increase the challenge and frustration? Why, what is the point of this approach? AFter 10 years still buggy mess: this time builders start a wall and never finish it. That means the greed just walk right through to your troops and kill them w/o any resistance. Hours lost because can't revert to a previous save. Google: kingdom builders stop building walls. some say a restart fixes it, but if not , HOURS gone. Also: developers: i'm an adult in control of my time. I should have the option to revert to a save and not make one mistake and have to start from scratch on island one. Unless can you program a perfect game w/o game breaking bugs, Please respect peoples time and allow loading a previous save. It's a matter of respect and working around your buggy mess.