
Originally Posted by
MutantKid
I actually played as a Lone Ranger when I first started & at a time where only 2 explorers were available & maybe a max of 3 gens & yes I did play Island of the pirates over & over to get to lev 50 (took about 500 of them at 3k xp per adv,lol. There is a massive disparity between items in merchant & actual trade so this is a huge stumbling block for new players.
With many new things introduced since those early days you can now level up in literally minutes, split city with buffs comes to mind.
As for many new players quitting before they get anywhere yeah unfortunately that's always gone on, you start with a tavern gen & couple explorers, troop rebuilding is tough early doors, like you said access to adv are slim. Joining a guild can really help though especially in events, Our guild regularly give away huge amounts of event resource which helps new players & pretty much all the others do the same. Try hang in there as the game hopefully will get way better with new devs who may actually release stuff promised years ago!