Daily player for almost 8 months. Starts quite F2P friendly, minimal spending can make a huge difference. And then it all changes. The 1.8 update introduced castle 50 and ramped up the difficulty. All the whales seem to have migrated to a few servers to dominate svs events and the increased difficulty means that the remaining small spenders like me and my alliance are screwed. The CoR event is now unplayable. Previously I could beat a chaos beast in 2 hits, with better troops it now takes 4.