I still haven’t been able to join a guild, I need to research Smithery technology first. When I logged on I was able to complete two different research and attain about 6 men for my army, but now I have to wait until I gain more coins i’m assuming.
The pace of the game is extremely slow if you’re not spending real money on it. If you have a lot of spare time, you can produce tools every 15 minutes, but if you’re like me and are super busy you probably just choose the “1 day” production so that by the time you log back into the game, you have coins to collect. I feel like other games are very fast and you can level up right at that moment if you’re really good, but in this game you can’t. There’s nothing else to do but wait if you’ve already completed all of the steps in the “story.”