After a little testing, I'm quite baffled by HOW fast the research tree has become now. I mean, you can level up many units at day 2 already! On day 8 some, especially the navy, will even reach level 4 already! What? Why?
This update has quite certainly given those who play the game all day a significant advantage in the early game, since one can start research after research, leaving those with lesser time on their hands in the dust by outclassing them with better units, even if those you build will take the same time to do so than before. This just feels wrong to me. Also, on the other hand, the speed for research has become so fast so that if you're up to speed, you can't even build stuff like medium tanks level 1, since infrastructure level 2 needs 2 days to be built, with the added in production time and getting them anywhere, shortage of resources, blah blah yada yada you may very well be able to tech them up to level 2 before they even see action, if you're not under attack, so this basically means that for stuff like infantry, milita, medium tanks etc. level 2 more or less is the new level 1, because you can tech them up that fast that level 1 becomes meaningless, a mere pesky stepping stone.
This update has quite certainly given those who play the game all day a significant advantage in the early game, since one can start research after research, leaving those with lesser time on their hands in the dust by outclassing them with better units, even if those you build will take the same time to do so than before. This just feels wrong to me. Also, on the other hand, the speed for research has become so fast so that if you're up to speed, you can't even build stuff like medium tanks level 1, since infrastructure level 2 needs 2 days to be built, with the added in production time and getting them anywhere, shortage of resources, blah blah yada yada you may very well be able to tech them up to level 2 before they even see action, if you're not under attack, so this basically means that for stuff like infantry, milita, medium tanks etc. level 2 more or less is the new level 1, because you can tech them up that fast that level 1 becomes meaningless, a mere pesky stepping stone.