This was a nice game for the first couple of weeks I upgraded my fortress then joined an alliance (which is pretty much mandatory to make progress). This went fine for a while until I discovered there are a couple of very strong alliances on the server I am residing who have made non-attack pacts with each other and cooperate to destroy every other alliance. It's working and the alliance I am in has been branded and procecuted to the extent everybody's leaving or abandoning the game.