I giggle when I get a 20 after plundering a goods building. It's a reward. Why don't you just go on your own run and take someone else's goods instead of taking a player's rewards away. I play this game 11 -12 hours a day everyday. I've put in the time. How much time do you devote to this game that you think you can convince the mods to take my rewards away? I'm tired of you 30min players crying and changing the rules for the rest of us. How is
that fair? We have sat and taken everything this game has had to dish at us and we haven't complained. And we are progressing just fine. Did you ever think your problem is you refuse to play the game the way it was meant to be played. Maybe if you picked up your swords and got off your carcasses and collected some 20s of your own, you'd be a lot better off and stop crying about your own losses!
You have to understand that people have life/work and thus bound by various time constrains. I noticed in the chat, several people who are unemployed, obviously they can work the game far far better than someone who checks the game before and after work...
More to the point, I think that adaptation to the neighborhood system is in everyone best interest. You wish more challenge, more people who "play the game" and will give you a fight, while others wish a fighting chance... a win win situation.
I have school 5 days a week. Before I go to school, I set up a 4 hour collection. At night, before I go to bed, I set up an 8 hour collection. The rest of my time is one hour collections. I do other things between those one hour collections, like studying, homework, chores. Just set up for an 8 hour collection before you head to work. Set up a four hour when you get home. Do family stuff, whatever. Then set up another 8 hours before heading to bed. Some time in those 3 checks, you could cash in 24 forge points. and it took 15mins of your life max! No way you should still be BA or IA after 2 months! And looters are not going to get all your goods so you can trade. And for heaven sake, this is a wargame. Build some bleepin defense!
You guys do not know how good you have it. Call these losses? I've played many other games. Those games they spam attack you hitting you as many times they have officers. They kill your army permanently, empty your stockpile, injure your officers, and damage your buildings. Looters here just get one building's production. Your defenders live to fight another day, and your stockpiles and buildings remain intact. It's quite tame. You lose a few goods and cry like it's the end of the world! Maybe you're just not cut out for wargames. Seriously, imagine if players of PVP shooters complained they got killed and didn't bother to carry a gun. So they told the mods that other players shouldn't be allowed to kill them. This is a wargame either be a warrior or find another game! Stop trying to mess this one up!
I WISH people would attack me more, and try to plunder me. I rampage my entire neighborhood on a daily basis. A fair number of them are still bronze or iron age and still only have 2 spearmen defending and have not even bothered to try and upgrade for months. Plundering is my way of saying "Please, can you at least try to play the game." If it even motivates a few people to attack me back that would make my neighborhood a much more exciting place. Attacking and defending is a part of the game, and with the way the game mechanics work the only true defense against plundering ... is plundering back! So what someone took a bit of gold from your building. Go take some gold off someone else