Maybe someone will get the chance to read this before BB's thought police removes this negative influence from the forum. They have in the past and will in the future. (It's a rather funny coincidence that Blue Byte and Big Brother has the same initials, isn't it?)
I have come to the conclusion that BB is an organization that lives by the philosophy that the customer is always wrong. Developers sits and think of harebrained ideas and are completely deaf to the opinions and wishes of their paying customers. Many of the things they have come up with in the past... well, to me at least it's like when an incompetent cab driver takes you to the train station instead of to the airport and then has the audacity to charge you at least twice as much as the other competent drivers. After having a disagreement with with support (and I think BB uses that word quite wrongly) I have finally had enough. I'm tired of crossing my fingers and hoping things will get better. I'm tired of new bugs being regularly introduced while nothing is being done about the old ones. I'm tired of being told all the time to empty my cache (and now I don't even have to go to the forum to be told. They have turned their holy mantra into a freakin' pop-up). I'm tired of the constant clicking on the mouse just to get the game moving at a snails pace. If you ever get the option to make 250 troops it will be in a so called 'epic' building costing twice as much as the endless copper mine, so big that you won't have any room for before you have moved around every building on your island and made a complete mess of your production lines. Just wait and see what happens after they have introduced the new battle system. After an appropriate amount of time and enough demands for endless iron mines and/or coal mines, special faster weapon smiths, titanium mines etc. BB will benevolently give those special features to you. For a price. And they will even grant you the special buffs you need for those buildings. For a price. I might be wrong. I sure hope so for the sake of you who choose to stay.
I have met some interesting, nice, funny and crazy people here. Best of luck to you all in the future.
And finally a big, friendly grin as I wave good bye to BB. What? Why am I grinning? Take a good look at what I'm waving with. Yes that is right, BB. It's my credit card. Bye.
LOL. This is rich. I got this message when I tried to preview this post:
No nothing wrong with BB's server at all. It's all my fault for logging on twice while writing this post. Bye, bugs. You were no fun at all. LOLvBulletin Message
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And I get the same message when I try to post without previewing. Good thing that copy/paste still works... *crossing fingers* ...I hope.