Punishing To New Players

This game is graphically nice, offers a lot of social options, and has a lot of depth. Unfortunately, almost all of that depth progressively lowers the play experience.

You can be attacked by ANYONE at any time and losing one battle can bomb you back days in progress (from about day three on). Sleeping for 8 hours with a shield will cost you $3.50 a day.That means the cost just to be able to sleep 8 hours a day is over $100 USD/month. Unless you want to pay thousands up front to buy the server, which someone will do.
The result is that all the veterans will all join one guild and destroy all the new players on sight since this is the only way for them to sleep at night without having to pay.
So you can be that person destroyed on sight in this game, or you can start over on a new server, spend a bunch of money, and then be the bully. Those are your two options.

Sarcerok about Ark of War: Aim for the cosmos, v1.1.7