Players are quitting this game en masse and servers are dying. They did a server merge yet still separated the servers with a paywall. It costs $100 just to move to an alliance on the other server that you merged with. Thats how greedy the devs are. If you just started this game, be prepared. Many players will eventually quit the game - because of boredom, frustration or they just cannot afford to keep up with the game requirements. The server will die and there will no one to play with.