I have loved The Settlers from the first one Serf City on the Amiga 1200. Sadly this past week I have played the online version. In that week I have seen good fail to appear in the store room after making them or spending gold or gems on them. I have also logged in every day yet not been given the rewards for the number of days I have logged in but simply seen it reset to day two. This is by far the worst this franchise has gotten as the makers persue ways of funding the game. Do they really believe we should pay for such a sub-standard product by purchasing gems. Yeah we don't have to and the game is then free to play but it still doesn't make the game any better when you work to get you little empire in balance to have all that work lost to bad maths. I will go back to the best Settlers so far made, the first one.