Amy,
Once more you miss the point. Having to work around a poorly written program isn't a solution to the problem. It's like having a flat tire and having someone trot along beside the missing tire to hold it up while the other 3 roll along. It's a broken system and it shouldn't be up to the players to band-aid it to make it work. Not everyone can schedule their time for their harvests to be picked up precisely...including me.
I don't care what defense you put up. When you're going up against troops one, two and three ages above you, you're dead meat. Trying to gain medals through the pvp towers becomes an impossibility when those you attack have guns, and you're using arrows. Harsh language is just as effective.
No offense, Amy or Jampot, but we're kinda fed up listening to mods cover for the developers. We need some answers from them, not you. If they have no intention of fixing it, at least we know it's time to seek better games. We're wanting answers. We know how to work around lousy programming, but it's so bad, that's becoming another attempt at futility.
To prove my point about how bad it is...and use this as it relates to your neighborhood. This is a copy/paste from a support ticket I put in regarding the neighborhood issue. It makes no sense whatsoever, but does fall into the category of political rhetoric....
"I am sorry that you are unhappy with your new neighbourhood and I will try to explain how the neighbourhood merge system works. It is not related to your points but instead to your research tree progress.
The neighbourhood merge system works by splitting neighbourhoods into 'blocks'. These 'blocks' are determined by the largest gaps between players in terms of their research tree progress. It is therefore possible for players to end up in 'blocks' whereby, once placed in the new neighbourhood, create large gaps between some players within that new neighbourhood. Hopefully this explains how this can occur, and future merges will help to level the playing field going forwards."
Hope you had your boots on...they're laying it on thick and stacking it high...