Don't be fooled by number of players - it's probably a few hundred that are actually active - and the vast majority of these are people with levels you'll never get to (unless you pay to win or play for 3 years like they have). The amount of times that you need to reset the game because of game breaking: your troops disappear; your cash disappears; your resources disappear is a tool the way the devs make their game plays # rise and will happen multiple times in 2-3 hours. The ingame chat is crap - it breaks all the time - and then you may have to reset. Alliances are useless - no gain to be part of an alliance unless you're afraid of being hit. The amount of grinding needed is insane. To "level up" your outpost you have to do things like: (a) hit a camp level 5 or above approx 50 times to get 4 pieces of armor (b) attack a lv 6 camp 500-600 times to start a ruin (c) find an egg - good for 100+ hitting a resource but closer to 1k for higher levels.
i bought the "skulking spectres are haunting atlantis" on 3/29/15 pack for 3 rubies and then "won" 1k shamans...but they are not in my forces...what gives???
ha ha... I scored 5 goals in the game; we won 5-nil; and then got chewed out by the coach... now a new video comes up and the stream is not found so I guess I can't play anymore :(