Grongash

As long as it doesn't involve pay2win I am fine with some sort of Subscription (more xp/gold gain or something) and/or Premium ships. It is impossible to fund the complexity of the game we want and hope for with just the base game. I enjoy the game and wouldn't mind to pay some to reduce the grind. I don't know how other players see it, but if you really are going to try to fund it just by Base-game sells i would most likely jump ship rather soon, those models never work.

While i get the reasons of limiting the amounts of chars to one it is also a very dangerous gamble. Works great it the game has okish numbers on all factions. But now picture you pick a nation that has almost no players, or they stop after some time. Given the slow progression players seem to want, you risk to run yourself in a corner. If i would have to delete my high level, well equipped char just because the nation i chose is (maybe even just temporarily) dead... Honestly, id rather stop the game. If we can have 2-3 different ones you can switch now and then, play a bit on a different nation if yours is dead. Lets be honest.. if you are really serious about "spying" you can just get a different account for that. Its not protecting you anyway. I get that you can abuse neutrals, but i still think they add to the game, id like to see them kept. Maybe not neutral towns as they are now tho. Make all of those Free Towns (or add a few more) and let them use those maybe?