As a long time fan of the Settlers games I think this is a worthy successor to the old games in most ways.

While it has a lot of mechanics that could be more refined, the core of what is already playable is enjoyable. Some things, like the difficulty and frequency of enemy camps are annoying, but there are no major design flaws that cannot be fixed as far as I could tell. One major thing that i hope gets added in the future, are AI opponents that you can either ally or go to war with, because right now the AI factions are rather one dimensional.

If they can hold up the quality and frequency of the updates and further refine the core aspects of the game, I think this game has a lot of potential to be one of my all time favorite games.