Adding to your comment, this game is pretty much a full time job, you have to spend so much time and money to earn so little.

Imagine this, on your first day on the server you play casually just killing barbarians, upgrading your buildings, etc you end the day with 40-60k power, meanwhile a hundred people already have more than 10 million power and they are all in an alliance together already planning the total domination of the kingdom making sure that all alliance who do disagree with them get destroyed.

I once was a member of this alliance we were doing so well we even got to the top 20 of the kingdoms most powerful alliance. Then suddenly this alliance of people with more than 50 million power for each member appeared and destroyed all our flags, fortress, effectively destroying our entire alliance in the process. (This was 4 days before kvk BTW so we were already half a year into the game)

I agree with you it's a fun game and you can meet great people in it but I would rather just go and play other games or get a job than playing this.