I don't play US w1, but I am going to give some feedback here as to the updates (as they will be the same as the ones on .net).
Positives:
Better Map options. By this I mean:
- Being able to show 20x20 or 30x30 grids, as opposed to 15x15 grid (the old highest setting), which helps a fair amount.
- Scrolling map.
- Being able to make notes on villages.
- Being able to highlight specific villages.
War Section.
- Great addition to the game.
Notebook.
- The tabs is a useful feature.
Quickbar.
- Having scripts centralised on each line is brilliant imo.
Negatives:
- Slower loading time. Not just me, but several others too.
- Overview. It used to be nice being able to see when the tribe profile/overview gets changed. But with the diplomacy markings showing up every time it gets changed, it spams the Overview up, which is really annoying when a lot of the time this is for marking, and in new tribes especially this just gets people saying "why do we have an NAP/alliance with this tribe?" or "we can't war them :S" on the internal forums.
Account Manager.
- Trying to scrounge more money out of us when we are paying possibly £4 a month ($5-$6) already. Asking for double that for extra stuff is rediculous, in my opinion.
- Mass Recruitment system seems stupid. Scripts do this fine, and tribalwars would lose 100s of players if they blocked those scripts, or made them illegal. Why have that as an extra feature when scripts the same sort of thing already?
- Automatic Building. This appears to be breaking previous rules set by the staff (at least on .net). I am confused as to why this is now a feature, when previously scripts were not allowed to do this.
- Automatic trading routes. Most people wouldn't use this, I wouldn't have thought. I'm always sending to different villages, so it seems pointless to me.
- Non Quick-Bar layouts. The top was better before it got changed. I also dislike the friends bit at the bottom.
- Pictures. Although this is able to be removed, it is just a real pain imo.
On a side note, the start-up thing causes major lag until it gets closed. Which I would like to see fixed.
A lot more negatives than positives from the update, in my opinion.
and where the heck are friends?
Bar at the very bottom.