Hello, was playing this game for about a week, and thoroughly enjoyed it, even with the bugs. But tl;dr, I cannot recommend this game as is.
First of all, even with the limited selection of buildings and units, it actually has some rich strategic depth to the game. The combat is nuanced and interesting, and I enjoyed being able to tactically outmaneuver my opponents. I think there's a lot of design choices I wouldn't have chosen, but overall it was pleasant to work out what was happening.
The problems arise with transparency. Barely anything is documented, and to figure out how things worked we had to experiment. There are key, crucial strategic things you need to know to be able to function in the game, and those with knowledge of it have a clear advantage, and these are things that should be part of documentation, like how timers work, how combat AI works, how fast things move on overworld and in combat.
The community is absolutely toxic. One of the community mods flew a swastika flag and is named Deutschland. He constantly laments opposing ideologies and talks about how great Germany's people had it under fascism. This community allows this type of behavior from the moderation team, and he has banned players for calling him out for his behavior. So, if this kind of things bothers you, skip the game.
Another community mod has gone on large rants about how much they dislike transexuals and their community, claiming how they feel is a choice and they simply need therapy to fix their issues. The mod's name is Fort Kick Ass and is one of the more vocal members against any ideology they disagree with and has threatened to silence anyone that disagrees with him.
The toxic community also complains loudly about every exploit. And unfortunately, the admin rewarded them for their behavior. Everyone in the game was being hit left and right by exploits, some got their capitals destroyed, others had their territory swarmed. As long as you complain loudly to the admin, he would spawn resources for players. This only rewards the type of mentality that needs to suck up to the admin for rewards and gifts in order to succeed in life, and if you don't want to play "who can suck up better to the admin", skip the game.
Another problem is the transparency. The game was being updated constantly but the changes were only posted on the internal discord for the game. At the bare minimum, these changes need to be posted to Steam. There was simply a huge lack of transparency in moderation actions and what the admin was changing to the game, and if you're not on the discord and don't want to be apart of the toxic community that harbors and encourages players that fly swastika flags by their moderation team, you're not going to know about anything that is happening in the game.
So, unless there is some serious changes to the admin's and moderation team's status quo and transparency about moderation and admin actions, I cannot recommend anyone to join this game or this community.
