I'd like to share the "glass half full" side for a moment. Notwithstanding the frustration expressed, I thank InnoGames for the effort to envision, create, and execute the concept of a "Community Sprint" for the product through feature adds and some chronic annoyance fixes.
DO NOT stop doing that please. I'd like to call this "Community Sprint 1", for that reason.
In the big strategic picture, the Community Sprint concept is at first, a free-form step to really understanding (without the rigors of the Forum's NEW IDEAS) what the community thinks is important to them. Good product management can rapidly discard the chaff suggestions, and study the "wheat" ideas as they aggregate. I liken it to (when I was in the business of software development...) a chance to travel to large customer sites and talk firsthand with their teams about what my product needed. It's classic Product/Dev management functions.
Yes, some suggestions will clearly NOT fit what you want, or where you want to take the product. That's OK. None of us are surprised an "AID all" isn't implemented. Right now, it's in the game's DNA to aid manually (vs a single button - do all).
However with an eye to flexibility and wanting to partner with your players to make the game experience more dynamic and meaningful, many good ideas will not destroy the vision you've got for your game. In fact, they will help it. Again, it just requires a bit of flexibility. I'm not lobbying for an AID ALL button either - with these comments.
Many of the things asked for reflect how the world's changed in 10 years, since FoE was originally designed, and implemented. In my humble opinion as a player here for about half that time, the best thing you can do for FoE is to understand the modern balance of people's lives, and fit more cooperatively into that. Don't make people choose to be here, vs dealing with their real life things.
There is a way to do both, and once you've lost a frustrated player, getting new eager ones is much harder.
There are a lot of game-savvy and even dev-savvy people here that can assist you seeing that, if you'll let us. I'm in the camp that thinks Community Sprint did some good.
In the final analysis, yes - it's all about the Benjamins (or Deutschemarks..). Thanks for the effort on CS.