OK, this really,really is not working for me. I have a range of worlds across the en servers, from CE up to VF. Every single hard and many medium battles offered are against SAAB opposition with stupidly high defense bonus - some more than +2000. Now I understand the meaning of the word hard and difficult but nowhere can I find either word interpreted as meaning total impossible. Because of the immense power of "nails" and their ability to "hide", a SAAB defense can be difficult for even other SAAB attacking armies to beat. It really is totally impossible for either CE and FE armies, even with good attack bonus. Therefore I am generally reduced to the easy option which is often as low as colonial and totally boring. With my 12 allotted battles per day only racking up a maximum 600 points and losing points for unsuccessful defensive encounters, I am just slipping further down the rankings with each hour of competition. Sorry chaps but this makes the whole thing a total waste of time, effort and resources for me. I used to love the old PvP towers and watched my progress over several ages on each server very keenly. I always loved the frantic Sunday night competition to try to win a tower if I was close enough. I liked having to decide which age army to use where to finish as high as possible in multiple ages. It was a major source of motivation and enjoyment for me, and from the regular competition that I faced, clearly for many others as well. The fact is Inno, you have taken all that away and replaced it with something that only SAAB age players can win. There would be no point in my spending even a single diamond because with my game age troops I could still never beat a SAAB army which is what you seem to have deemed necessary. It is not as if the prize offered for P51 to P500 is even anything to get excited about and it is certainly not something worth spending diamonds for. Come to that P11 to P49 are not much better, not that I will ever be able to get there anyway - lol. Effectively what you have done is spoil the game for me. I now have to question whether I want to keep playing or not. I suspect probably not and have already deleted 2 cities since this started. Shame really, I have played this silly game for 9 years now and used to really enjoy it. This is just one more huge change for the worst I am sorry to say.