*My ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ spelling sucks so here is the disclaimer*
So i have played this game a bit and decided its a decent pay to win (sadly as most games are today). It is fun, as in typical skinners box mechanics and 'puppy guarding' of your town basicaly make this game the center of your attention for most of the time. I decided to join USA4 a fairly new server and was greeted with daily attacks from players who eventualy took my one and only village, after my sheilds were down of course; I actualy enjoyed this part until a op player leveled my 4 block thick stone wall castle with an outer 4 thick wooden wall castle in one attack (mind you I had 4 of the begining stone towers(can not recall their name) with 3 archers on them each and 4 archers in the default structure in the middle of the catle grid area. A serious debuff needs to be enacted for larger players attacking smaller ones, considering I spent 1 week in the server until I was wiped off of existance. I do like the fact that you keep some of the more time dependent parts of your profile (honor, rank, gold, and research) but as stated before, a serious debuff must be made on large players attacking small players it ruins the experence and makes the game fun for well established players while its a livving hell for beginers.

Mainly I went to this game for the game of war/anno online like mix it had (both games I enjoyed GOW I left for the same reason I am leaving this one). This brings me to another point, although it might be dependent on me but i have been having similar launch issues that most anno online players have; I checked my fire walland virus reports only to se strongholdkingdoms.exe was flagged for being a posible trojan horse, so I subbitted the file for review to my security provider and downloaded their app on the play store (still have no conformation (this was about 3 days ago). I downloaded it, a bit large but hey its a game originaly on the computer I dont care. I oppended it the UI could use work, very diffrent from PC (although I realise it difficult to make the UI great from PC to Moble). So 2 day into having the app downloaded I get a security pop up asking if stronghold kingdoms has permition to record audio and video. Being generaly familiar with the game and computer security am am wondering WTF that was about (if you know any game fuctions that take audio and video on moble please let me know) and proptly after getting paranoid, uninstall the game and run 2 diffrent security measures on my moble device, luckly both came up with nothing.

Breakdown:
Seemingly has personal security issues
pay to win; 'puppy guard' to win
same skinners box mechanics as most others
Large players can wipe you away after your sheild runs out, even on a new server (posibly you get a permenet (large) honor debuff for attacking levels smalller than you by a factor of say 6 levels/sublevels)
Intresting choices game mechanics saved when you 'die' in the game (I mean this in a good way)

*My fucking spelling sucks so here is the disclaimer* So i have played this game a bit and decided its a decent pay to win (sadly as most games are today). It is fun, as in typical skinners box mechanics and 'puppy guarding' of your town basicaly make this game the center of your attention for most of the time. I decided to join USA4 a fairly new server and was greeted with daily attacks from players who eventualy took my one and only village, after my sheilds were down of course; I actualy enjoyed this part until a op player leveled my 4 block thick stone wall castle with an outer 4 thick wooden wall castle in one attack (mind you I had 4 of the begining stone towers(can not recall their name) with 3 archers on them each and 4 archers in the default structure in the middle of the catle grid area. A serious debuff needs to be enacted for larger players attacking smaller ones, considering I spent 1 week in the server until I was wiped off of existance. I do like the fact that you keep some of the more time dependent parts of your profile (honor, rank, gold, and research) but as stated before, a serious debuff must be made on large players attacking small players it ruins the experence and makes the game fun for well established players while its a livving hell for beginers. Mainly I went to this game for the game of war/anno online like mix it had (both games I enjoyed GOW I left for the same reason I am leaving this one). This brings me to another point, although it might be dependent on me but i have been having similar launch issues that most anno online players have; I checked my fire walland virus reports only to se strongholdkingdoms.exe was flagged for being a posible trojan horse, so I subbitted the file for review to my security provider and downloaded their app on the play store (still have no conformation (this was about 3 days ago). I downloaded it, a bit large but hey its a game originaly on the computer I dont care. I oppended it the UI could use work, very diffrent from PC (although I realise it difficult to make the UI great from PC to Moble). So 2 day into having the app downloaded I get a security pop up asking if stronghold kingdoms has permition to record audio and video. Being generaly familiar with the game and computer security am am wondering WTF that was about (if you know any game fuctions that take audio and video on moble please let me know) and proptly after getting paranoid, uninstall the game and run 2 diffrent security measures on my moble device, luckly both came up with nothing. Breakdown: Seemingly has personal security issues pay to win; 'puppy guard' to win same skinners box mechanics as most others Large players can wipe you away after your sheild runs out, even on a new server (posibly you get a permenet (large) honor debuff for attacking levels smalller than you by a factor of say 6 levels/sublevels) Intresting choices game mechanics saved when you 'die' in the game (I mean this in a good way)