Today I played on grepolis after a week and frankly speaking, It was exactly what I thought, no better than 1.26 and for some things even worse than 1.26.
In my brief play the thing which really frustrated me were
1) Too much click to do anything.
e.g. Instead of all city list accessed by one icon, now it shows my cities in 8 pages. So if I have to go to any city, I have to click multiple times.
2) Back button does not work.
e.g. If i read a message and than went to certain city or map area, now If I want to come back to message or forum, I can't use back button. I have to open my messages(forum) again and go to the correct message (thread).
3) Removing city list button (replacing it with city group for guys with admin) is really frustrating. 1.26 was much easier, You log in, click on the city you want to go and check everything. In this version, you do not have any choice except to use administrator and follow admin function no matter how frustrating they are.
4) World wonders was disappointing. I was expecting it to be a difficult and time taking task to build wonders. But for such advance world, If I want, I alone can build world wonder to level 10 in a months.
5) Having one click city festival is cool, but then again, they could have done the same for sending resources to wonder island in one click or sending silver to your cave in one click.
6) Farming is suppose to be easier with this world, but with so many already dedicated cities with no offensive army and no single click option to conquer all farming village, I do not think I will ever spend time to conquer all farming village.
7) Annoying daily award windows that opens up when you click on a city.
Overall, it is a halfhazardly done update that in no way help us but makes it much difficult to play when you have so many cities. Only reason they did this to make their life easier by having only one version and increase premium use. With this new interface, I think no one with over 60-70 cites can play it without admin.
Yogesh