The economy is terrible and turned off once a week. Once people hit 60 they stop playing. Fast travel is a joke and makes you fearful of wasting using it. You spend more time throwing resources on the ground than trying to sell them because the more weight you have the more fast travel costs. Without a mount you may spend 20 minutes running back to a city. You may not even be able to refine those resources in that city due to a downgrade from an invasion.