One major weakness of the game is that the game offers plenty of small wins, but after a while all those wins become somewhat repetitive. Still, I wouldn't say this is a perfect game. One great aspect of the game is that one can choose to play this game militarist, and other can do it based on goods production, and both can somewhat play all the mini games. And both functions are integrated in the mini games in such a way that even free players can get enough fun out of these (instead of facing frustration, as it occurs in most other war games).
It's more like a sim city style game with the additional options for wars and trading. Main theme of the game is empire building. In fact, attacking others gives you little benefits, and you would start avoiding after a while (unless you're too much into hurting others.) Then again, attacking each other is not crucial aspect of the game. Only people in the neighborhood can attack each other, and they're mostly somewhat of the same strength. In reality in this game it doesn't matter how strong the other people on the server are, because no one can attack no one randomly. The people complaining wouldn't have learned the basic concept of the game and would have quit. This game is unlike most other games out there, because it DOES NOT force you to spend money. Well I'll leave FoE if I'm forced to comply to irrational rules like that.I don't understand the negative reviews. Now after around a year trading in the next guild I joined quite happily using the trade calculator they are talking about going back to the old fixed ratios mainly because some people can't be bothered to use it even though we had agreed we could trade anywhere between true value and old fixed ratios which meant you could be generous as a temptation if needed. OK, if they can't evolve with FoE that's their choice, but, it was not for me.
I left my last Guild ages ago when we were forbidden to trade fairly using the Fair Trade Calculator and were forced to stick to the pedantic 1:2 or 2:1 due to Guild officials being stuck in the past in a period before the higher ages were introduced.
True value of goods between consecutive higher ages was no longer 1:2 or 2:1, but, decreased as you went up the ages until you get to trading between Contemporary and Tomorrow where they revert back to 2:1 and can be calculated very simply with the Fair Trade Calculater. As many of you know the introduction of higher ages saw a change in ratio of value of goods produced comparing one age with another.
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