Can you imagine what it would have been like if there was no such thing as NPC farming? I mean imagine if the game worked in the following ways:
- Players couldn't make NPCs (abandoning cities would mean a flat instead of an NPC)
- The NPCs that would be around the server from the start would be much greater in defence than they usually are and have less resources.
- NPCs attacking random players/alliances everyday at random times everyday and taking away as much resources as possible from players on successful attacks.
And so on...
Imagine that was the gameplay instead. How would have things been? How would it affect the gameplay for everyone? Would you have played on for long or would you have left the game after a short while?

