Here's the situation I'm in, I suspect most of us have been in a similar spot by now
I had about 25k gens. I was attacked by someone with 85k gens.
I was saving for my 12th GR so millions of resources on hand.
What do you do?
I started getting rid of the resources that took months and months to store up, Better for me to spend them than get stolen. 2 million crystal spent on experiments etc.
Better get rid of my sulphur too, at least I can convert that into troops and ships to defend myself and stop this attacker, right?....no.
I got all my barracks and shipyards producing troops and ships. But they have control of my ports and occupying my towns. Any troops that turn up are immediately under attack by a far superior force.
You can't wave when you rebel, and you can't leave. You just have to sit there and take it.
Your tiny band of troops are inside the wall, they don't even have that protection. It's a bloodbath. Especially with a few forges active.
When the attacker notices I produced a few units they wipe them out and I'm back to square one.
As for the fleet. it's going to take over 10 days to produce enough ships to put up a fight.
But again when ships turn up there aren't enough to clear the port, and when they notice I have ships they wipe them out.
Back to square one again, but minus some sulphur and gold.
So in 3 days I have successfully managed to raise my gens to 31k.
That's an increase of 6k gens.
Meanwhile, overnight my attacker went from 85k gens to 135k gens. And last night they increased their gens to 165k.
Their gold supply went down 120 million. We ALL know why.
So it seems to me, for anyone without access to a military bank there are 2 options:
• v-mode
• let them plunder all your resources
If there are no serious options for resistance then the balance of this game is fundamentally broken.