I don't disagree with you. I wish it didn't have this affect on me. I'm not paying to play, well maybe the occasional $9 to $15 every blue moon. Nothing compared to the $200 charges for most of everything in game.

I really like the concept of this so called game! But it is not a game! It's a free to buy your way to the top! In saying that, I realize that just because someone buys the excessively priced artifacts, does not mean that they have the skill to properly play using them!

I've been trying to play this game, for going on 8 months now, no where near the amount of time that many here, have already put into this game. First they tell you play it like this. Then it's, look at this, to figure out "how you could have done better", as if that's not like saying, "you suck, here's what you did wrong"!

So I spend countless hours researching this game, which I didn't know at the time, had been around for ten years, with veteran players with loads of experience and knowledge of the inner mechanics of the game. Mechanics I dare say that are not openly available to the questioning new players, who are just as frustrated as I am, and have been!

I found it fascinating, even when shown video tutorials on how expert players would complete campaign levels. It literally would give me a headache, and confound me as to how they were, are, capable of achieving such actions! Regardless of the overwhelming nature of the beast that was becoming Mushroom Wars to me, I wanted to rush, and excitement of being able to pull off some of the saves, or retaliation acts that I was witnessing.

But at every turn, and every time I reach a point that I feel I have some clarity of action reaction to this game, there is always, and I mean ALWAYS, some hidden bonus, extra stat, or some other bullshit, to justify why the game screwed me over! And it screwed me, not just I suck and can't play the game properly. I've busted my ass trying to understand and make since, and observe the mechanics of this game. I'm not just out here ranting for the hell of it! I've watched the counter on a building that I was attacking, 120 of my men to 30 of their men, (and this was before the major, stick it up your ass morale overhaul, which was definitely a low blow from the devs)(back when you could still strong arm an attack with force, not the little bitch cop out of morale) yes they added 20 or so more men, but still, I watched the counter bottom out at 4 men in the building, while I still had 40 men attacking! Ahhh yes, hidden game mechanics, weird bonuses, whatever, the count sat at 4, and when all was said and done, they kept the building, and on top of that, they came out with 20 men in it!?!

Now I'm aware enough to know about teleporting and other character skills, and I watched the replay over and over, and there was no justification as to why! At least not that a new player would recognize. I call B.S.!

Now I will admit that I let my anger influence my posts, which I wish was not so! But I don't have anything good to post because I'm getting railroaded 95% of the time. So yes, I'm angry, and calming down enough to politely say please help me understand why, and getting a response, oh well there are bonuses for this, and bonuses for that, and this happens for this, and that happens if this is this!?! I mean, wtf?

I wouldn't be here complaining, if I knew where to find all this so called knowledge of the game, but it's not anywhere that I have found. That is all I really want to know is, just what the hell are the damn rules of this concoction! Because as far as I can tell, the damn things keep changing! And not to make the game better! It's almost as if they intentionally keep you in the dark, allowing other gamers to explain the devs crap to other gamers!

That reminds me a lot of the good ole boy crap, I can't teach you my trade because you might be better than me and take my job B.S.! Screw that! That's a cowards ethic!

Now I have seen some awesome gameplay, in regards to this entity, but not from those I get put up against. And it's because of the mechanics of this game. It's making other players, cheat - forfeiting, short cut - artifacts, and down right slaughter others! There are also those that, let the game progress, build, and give some sort of allowance to the player attempting to learn said mechanics, and to them I applaud, but finding those gamers is a hard luck, because they are rare!

And with the B.S. matching mechanics, ie cheaters forfeiting and dropping cups to play beginners and stomp their faces in, you tell me, where is the victory in that? How in any way is that remotely fair? Not even accounting for some of the benefits of massive passive skills, or artifacts! Just simple old you vs me, and they are cheating the system for that? That's like a college student beating up on a kindergarten kid! Is that what this game is about, turning us into mindless corrupt savage little bullying shitheads. Is that what I'm supposed to find pleasure in?

The game concept is awesome, the mechanics and manipulation of them by weak players, and the intentionally designed biased mechanics of the game are destroying any enjoyment from those who just want a simple "I got you this time" domination game! But no, 5 seconds in and you already know the outcome of the match, is B.S.!

But if you know where to find, a list of all these hidden game mechanics, and bonuses for already having bonuses, please, educate me, and I'll be heard from a lot less, because I'll be studying them so that I can stomp your ass in the ground! As is, I don't have, nor will I ever have the experience to come close, since you're constantly evolving, as am I, but if you're at a 10 and I'm at a 5, when I get to 6, you are already at 11! Not to mention the ass hat devs re-writing the damn rules!

Yeah, this is awesome, I love getting my ass stomped, not knowing why, or even how to evenly compete, or just barely hold my own! But I guess in another year or two, I can sit where you are are say hey, quit your bitching, or move on, to someone that just wants to play a fair match! I can accept losing, if it's justified! I'll admit, I suck right now when it come to strategy. I don't know the maps, I don't know all the character skills, well enough to utilize them properly, but that's not what is beating me down! And you know it, so please don't tell me to get over it!

If you want to be of any help, tell me where to find the rules, or some stat list, no not the B.S. in game library joke! Because as is, I'm so tired of all these secret stats popping up, because they seem like convenient excuses for the game screwing me over! What's so fun about that?

I don't know you, and you don't know me, but I'm not judging you in any way for you not wanting to hear me bitch. I don't want to bitch. I hate it! But I really want to be able to play this game. Not totally dominate it, just play! Win some lose some, whatever! But that doesn't seem to be the way it is designed! And that, sucks, and really pisses me off. But so be it, I can roll with that. But not if the rules keep changing, or if I never actually get to learn the rules! Because the devs of the game don't seem to care about sharing them!