If you have never played this game before, and you are reading this forum for the first time to see if it is worth joining, do yourself a favour,
DO NOT BOTHER.
Let me explain why. Without doubt TW2 is a good game. You will spend hours, days and weeks trying to understand how to play the game and then subsequently, playing the game, only for your hard work to be taken by someone else. So you will try again, and the same thing will happen. As you skills improve, you will start to notice how 'other' players on this game always appear to grow so much quicker than you. It will be a little confusing at first, then you will be made aware that you can buy something called 'Crowns' from InnoGames, which will cost you money, but, you will believe that it will be worth it as it will put you on a level playing field with those that appear to grow so much quicker than you had previously. So you spend your money, use your 'Crowns', and the same thing happens. The Crowns do not actually give you the advantage you thought they would?
Why is this?
Because there are far too many cheats on this game. But, InnoGames have a process where you can report cheats so they can be banned. So you take advantage of this, collect your evidence and report them, by raising a 'ticket' in the support section.
The response you get back from InnoGames on that ticket is poor, firstly in the communication you receive from them, and secondly, in the actions they take to stop the cheating taking place, effectively InnoGames ignore the cheating. Why? I'm not sure. Maybe, because of the amount of cheating that takes place, OR, they don't have the team members required to carry out so many investigations, OR, they don't actually have the skills to put measures in place to prevent the cheating happening, OR, they simply ignore it so other new players coming to this game buy Crowns from them, OR, those who manage the tickets do not actually pass them over to the development team and make decisions that they will benefit from. I'm not sure, but normally, no actions appear to take place. Sometimes they will take action and ban a player. BUT they will ban them for 2 days and then let them carry on, keeping the benefits they have gained from their cheating actions.
And trust me when I say it all becomes very frustrating in the end
So, I hope that has explained why it is important you DO NOT JOIN this game ... effectively, it is a 'rip off, and as I stated at the beginning of this message:
DO NOT BOTHER.