A few of us from the Cola Warrior group in meat space are now virtually chugging and puking on other people. I found a war game about a week ago, War and Order. Standard collect resources, build your castle up, build your buildings up so that you can build your troops up and smash other people doing the same thing game.
No advertising in game, has in game currency which is stupidly overpriced for the advantages it would give you (probably 2-4% overall growth increase at $1/day). I'm not paying for shit and am in the top 200 of 4000 on the realm we're on.
We're active as hell, raid everything we can, and weasel ourselves out of trouble when we piss off the wrong people. Have a facebook group for coordination but the in game isn't terrible.
Game is geared heavily towards alliances and defensive posture. We're figuring it out as we go and have a decent quick start and intro to war guides going on the seeekret fb group.
There are, as usual, advantages to using a referral code for both the person who generates and anyone who uses it.
If you want in, here's my code
https://goo.gl/XA4hXK . If you join, post your own, I'll pull mine after 2-3 people join, and we can pyramid scheme this shit.
If you want in the seeekret fb group, you're going to have to violate your opsec and PM me your name so I can let you past my security filters. If you want to play and don't want to FB with it, PM me and I'll send you a screen cap of the quick start guide to get going.
Don't worry about being behind the growth curve. They've done a pretty good job balancing noobs by making it easy to aid each other early on in the growth curve. And hell, you'll be raiding inactives for loose change after three days anyhow.
For those who remember the old browser based games Cybernations, Lunar Wars, Tribal Wars, and Ikarium, I was with Fark back then, and we raised some hell. We'll do the same now with the old core Farkers and the chuggers from Cola Warrior.
Molon labe.
PS - the app will ask for access to your photos and contacts. You don't have to give it either to play. Access to photos will let you pick a custom avatar in game. Contacts will let you send out invites to the game from the app. You can allow, change your avatar, and disallow forever again.