Spent so many hours every single day trying to grow my castle, troops, units, spent real money so that I could build a strong alliance that I started a couple of days into playing and had a lot of people join that never contributed & probably stopped playing the game an hour later. Can't succeed alone in this game. Over a week building obelisks and expanding, but in 2 hours one player from another alliance destroyed half of what I've built. Waste of hours of my life. Wasted real money on this.