The Weekly Challenge has not done anything worthy to the game except make more and more people spend real life cash to attain more and more worthless rewards. The game used to be user oriented, where nations and individuals fought in battles to defeat a foe. Today is nothing like that. We see dozens of battles with no sense of gamesmanship. Dozens of battles for farming gold from medals all predicated by the weekly challenge mantra: Spend Spend Spend.
We need Nations and Individuals to be in change of the game world. Not some fictitious reward system for logging in more (most are bots anyway running on 24/7/365 scripts). We need goals like more MPP Battles and global warfare centered around capturing resources. This game has become a monotonous, soulless, version of v1. People do not log in to chat with friends or hit in mass attack channels anymore, or even devise stratagems. They merely hit the go button on their latest script and/or steal medals from poor e-youths with their maverick packs.
I have boycotted the game financially because you administrators don't seem to give a toss about your games community, ever since you killed several of my friends during the rebellion, people have moved further and further away from accepting this as a serious game. You are basically seen as thieves, milking as many people as you possibly can, until they hopefully move on to something more strategic. I have many friends in the New World... maybe not enough to have an ambassador award. But you are not getting a dime from me until you fix this game back to a v1 standard of gamesmanship.
I have offered tons of critical game improvements. Few have been implemented. Nerf our stats so new citizens can thrive. Fin.