This is definitely a pay to play game. You run out of energy, faction points and stamina, which idk why they make it separate. You need gold for like everything that can assist you. Takes for ever days. Literally days to upgrade buildings. Start getting harder to get speed ups. I'm Literally at mansion level 18 and completely stuck. Story line, graphics everything else is good. But also can't even sell items you don't need. And everything just takes forever. Playing to win for another game. D/A