I get what Longhorn is talking about,
I for one only get premium accounts when I pass the 500 PT Mark,
and only get Premium Points from doing surveys and what not...
But then again, every game development company are just that...a company, and their sole purpose is to make $$$,
I do give InnoGames credit as they are focused on the players experiences, and to be honest new people enjoy playing T.W
until someone who's been playing for years comes down on them and forces them to quit the game...
that's what I think the real issue here is, not being able to keep new players involved because of older more experienced
Players being over-aggressive and sending them restart and quit messages over-flooding their inboxes...
Back on topic: I love these flags and trying new things got me to come back playing...
The thing I like about Innogames and the TW updates, is that they are good updates that help the game, and many of these updates, you don't even have to use the new features if you don't like them, for example, the Graphics (night mode and whatnot), churches - if you don't like em, you can play a non church world.
Yeah, I always try to help new players when I can. In w62, it was my first world back, so I just played a little rim, and ended up helping out a couple new players, one of them is currently 175k or so, not bad for his first world ever
I think w54 was a new players world, and I think more like that should be released, maybe release a regular world, and a new players friendly world at the same time, so the experienced players don't have to wait for the next world to be released.