Dear lord. That game becomes super super super time consuming. It is also a shit load of fun. You might think that you can just play for a couple hours a day, but the thing is... it gets more and more complex and demands more and more time on your end. Micromanaging one village is nice, but when you start getting multiple cities, have to coordinated 23 separate attacks with your alliance a day, it gets a bit dicey. And note, if you wish to win, you have to be in synch with your alliance w/coordinating attacks. Like, you can't be more than a minute out of sync. Thats only end game though... so you should be fine for 1.5 months or so.

Starting late in a round sucks. By that time theres gonna be a giant kingdom within 5 hours of attack... and it sucks when you come out of protection and a massive army comes and levels your entire city. You become what they call a farm, and you can't do shit against that unless you have friends nearby who are buff. But that requires a shit ton of cajoling on the forums etc, so I'd recc not starting in a server thats more than 2 weeks old, unless its to just make friends for the next round.

Don't play this game. It just does not scale well past a month. Try a friendlier game like Utopia, shadowmere, archspace, the5pillars(archmage).

Utopia, because they reward you for not logging in more than 20 hours. That means you won't be logging in like a crack addict, unless your alliance is at war.

Shadowmere+thefivepillars(archmage) because they're turned based and you won't be required to login more than 1x a day unless your join a blitz server.

 

Agreed. If you truly want to approach the upper limits of the game, you need at least five duals spread over the world and willing to blow 1k gold/week. But if you just want a feel of the game, do NOT try the speed servers. I've known people who didn't sleep for the first 72 hours of the server to micromanage and farm.

 

Check out Cybernations, I'm kinda out of the loop when it comes to browser games (last played one about 3-4 years ago, and that was travian ;b)

www.mpogd.com lists a lot of browser and their game of the month section is pretty good at helping narrow down games to check out. Looks like population of the games I mentioned earlier have died off a lot.

Personally, I'm looking for a browser game as well. My 2 major caveats: Must have an ending/restart of <6 months, needs active player population of >1,000 a day. Anyone got any suggestions?

 

Pfft, Ogame is the best browser game.

 

Looks decently fun, which server are you in?

 

Gave it up a long time ago because my alliance fell apart, but I was uni 36 and I still get the pull to go back and play again every now and again. The problem with it is that you start planning your life around it, which doesn't work well. If you wanna try it I'd suggest the newest uni because then you won't be up against too many established players.