I have played the Settles since the original game off and on for years. I have just found this new online version which I started to enjoy playing untill I got a little further into the game. Unfortunately I feel the whole game has been ruined by the excessive amounts of resources needed. For example just to create 1x milita you need 10x iron swords, 1x sword costs 2x iron and 8x coal. If you add up the cost of iron and the coal to produce 10x swords for 1x milita it costs 200 coal and 80 iron ore!!! who ever came up with this excessive amount? because of this I will no longer be playing this game!