Googi, talking about Servers or are you talking about the gameplay? The way you worded it up, you're talking about one or the other...
Server to Player Lag:
Personally, the lag is a serious issue right now, and honestly, the only way it will be fixed is if they dish out some money to buy some brand new servers, dump all the data over, get a dedicated connection for the servers, get additional servers for down the road for future servers, and with all of this done, pray to god you don't go bankrupt. Truth is, with the lag, and economic restraints, they really can't expand, unless if the money is there to expand. Lack of money...No Expansion...No new servers and connection lines to decrease the lag, and to increase the flow of traffic that can move between the server and the player.
We also have to take into account over seas servers travel either by under water cables ( Dirt slow ), and by Satellite connections ( Unreliable ), which leaves those that are overseas in a dead end situation as well with Lag. To solve this, they would have to throw a branch over seas, again, money would be required there, then the purchase of servers for over seas, dedicated lines...again, money.
What I'm boiling down to, without the funds, the ones running the server for Kingdoms will never be able to expand until they get the right amount of cash. Once they do, they may choose to build on that first to have a small "Fall back" amount.
Updates:
As for the updates...People being way too lazy with the updates, I don't even want to go in depth on that, personally.
I hope this clears things up with everyone before they start trying to lobe their frags about.
Edit:
Also with the overseas part, they would also need a line between the two branches...AKA more cash.
