Nice game! Not much to add to the feedback - repeating what others have said, checking some numbers and calculations to make sure things have the capacity to scale exponentially at an equal rate would be good. (Jobs, blocking and traps in particular seem very weak late game.) I also seem to be getting Coordination upgrades faster than I can expand my territory to accommodate them - currently on 13 (+9) so I have 9 upgrades available on 20k trimps with 8.19k attacking at once. At World 24 and starting to stall out, but having fun. Keep up the good work!
Nice game! Echoing the comments about heroes being perpetually too weak. I'd also like a bit of variance between the different colours - unlocking the same ability four times just isn't as satisfying.
I liked it. Being a Brit, I didn't know the Chicago Tribune was the name of a real paper so that had me stumped for a while, but once I got past that it was smooth sailing. :)
If you're going to nerf the effects on rings and necklaces (which I can understand for things other than luck, some cast chances are ludicrous), could you also nerf the difficulty of blacksmithing? Upgrading past +7 basically isn't worth attempting anymore...