You'll need lots of money or lots of patience
I have been playing for a little over 2 years. The game starts out fun and inexpensive but the more you play, the more you have to pay. But when there is a problem, IGG just doesn't care! If you're in a battle and their game glitches because the update was full of bugs causing you to lose a lot, too bad for you. They will give you some worthless items "to compensate" but you'll have to spend big bucks if you want back what you lost. And matching for events? It's supposed to be making the competition even right? Lol Nope, it's rewarding the players who spend a ton matching them to opponents who are weaker and have no way of winning unless they too want to spend big bucks to buy strength. So, if you want to win, be prepared to throw away tons of money and don't mind next to zero support. Or have a ton of patience, play for fun, and don't expect to win and forget about any help if you have problems. This last problem has been ongoing for over 3 days and I have lost a lot of my troops and resources because of the bugs in their last update. To "compensate", I was given items that are completely useless for regrowth and aren't worth anything. They just don't care!