Decent fun, by flawed PVP

The game is a decent game to play if you just want something you can come to 1-2 a day. They provide tutorials so you can learn basic stats when laying siege and some nice challenge sieges.

However, the pvp-esk aspect of the game when you lay siege on another players castle and visa-versa needs improvement. There were times when Im attacked by someone who is half my rank, but then another time Im attack by someone 10x my rank. Ive also been frequently attacked by players in the age above me. Its a major issue that needs a fix so that you only ever combat those of your relative level.

Due to this issue, getting upgrades becomes a long process as you loose resources each time youre attacked, and the later ages have very high upgrade costs. Its somewhat mitigated by the daily gold earnings, but typically only for closing the last few 10,000 or so gap which even then itll typically deplete all your gold. Do not pay real money for gold, it is not that effective.

Stark&Mrkisuke about Age of Empires: Castle Siege, v1.17