Thread:Sylvandyr/@comment-5089372-20121218204008

I finally have an answer on the forum for why new players must evolve from 3-4 and other players do not. From TL:

"We won't be doing anything to level out the playing field with regards to evolve steps per player. I hope you can understand that it would set an impossible precedent and require workarounds to balance every feature in the game. We'd love for everyone to have the same evolution steps that we decided balanced the game best, but we decided against forcing the change on existing players."

So I guess this is not an out-of-sync issue as we thought but a choice by TL. Just wanted to let you know too. :) 