The only recent forget up was release XP system being bugged, but if you can find a small-ish group of friends to play with, it can be a lot of fun.
The only problem with the game at the moment is that playing solo is absolutely brutal, but much of that is player behavior related, and not really related to the game balance. Most clan players suck ass at the game, they band together for protection and ego, I find.
A small group of 4-5 is kind of the magic number because you won't attract too much attention from big clans, while not having any of the disadvantage of a solo (lower resource gains, less ability to defend a raid, etc etc.)