Lets see,...
- you are forced to build armories. If you are not a fighter and dont have one, sucks for you, demolished your cherised factories to make up room for more population OR BUY SNAILS
- you are forced to fight to clear provinces so if you are not a fighter you are forced to level up your barrack (cos at ring 11 there is no way you can muster fast enough army to fight 1000+ army on level 1 barrack), again more population also needed, means? You guessed it, more demolishing OR BUY SNAILS
- elves residences are upgraded with a totally different building orientation, from 2x4 to 4x3. And for a really great big total increase of just over 2 population per square block (and this is from 19-21, dont even get me started on how pop per square actually went minus from 19-20), and to make it even worse, different orientation means completely different road direction, changing them would be a complete pain in the arse. With the so very little space left from the expansion, this would be so hard to do unless... You go and BUY SNAILS.
I get it. You dont REALLY have to fight, but you just cant clear provinces, you dont REALLY have to upgrade, but you wont be able to play new feature, you dont have to buy snails but you will have a really painful and shitty time.
One thing is clear after this update, Inno hates non fighter, and they dont care whether we quit or not, i have spent some serious $$ on this game and i even planned on buying a couple snail when i get on it, just cos ithought it was necessary to keep my current level of factories and support the devs, but after this update, for the first time ever i am seriously contemplating to quit.
PS: And dont even get me started on next update which forces us to research all AW, you all know what this means right? More AW means harder to complete the runes, which in turn, means, more people will loose patience and buy them using diamond. I acutally bought my Mountain hall using diamond and i dont mind, but i really think its a shitty move to force me to.