Quote from two loversMarble that you can't get it where you are today. After a while, you will want something else, something more. And will require a marble that, where you are today, you wont get it.
Equilibrum is 8 marble, 3 wine, 2 sulphur, 2 crystal and a bit of ambrosia from time to time. If you intend to be an attacker, and that's fine, you yill need with what: town halls that needs satisfaction, then barracks and shipyards. That means marble. you won't get it here.
There's plenty of inactive players around in these islands that are boosting my economy as I am able to pillage these towns for insane amounts. Can I not expect that some of these will vanish as the time goes and give me proper place for building new towns?