You had seven days to explore the game interface. I myself found the panel on the first day.
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You had seven days to explore the game interface. I myself found the panel on the first day.
In fact, three, and two hours. Yet I was clearly able to find a highly visible panel in the middle of the game screen. Crazy.
how is it crazy. its not exactly in the middle of the game screen.
It's clearly visible, next to icons that you click EVERY DAY.
yes i know but i wasnt in an alliance until the last day of my protection so i didnt bother to look at it. the only way i thought that alliance stuff would apply to me at that time was through my embassy.
there is no way for a player to protect themselves from having their resources and gold taken, wall defenses destroyed, army destroyed, and every city except one taken away.
a determined attacker (or group) can do these things to anyone.
I do not expect this to change.
Yes, the established and experienced do "pick" on the weaker. It's a game revolving around survival of the fittest. I doubt it will change, and nor should it.
If you can't figure out what's goin on in 7 days you probably shouldn't keep playin on the 8th. I'm serious that's a good long time to figure it out. 1 or 2 if you just pay attention. Explore your options, click on everything, and you actually dont have to click everything, hover your mouse over tabs, it gives you most info you need. The world chat drives me nuts in any server because there's a 100 people with 50 million questions being asked a piece. The game's fine, the 8th day is incentive to get better and prepare for the worst.
I can say that if you don't want to be picked on, please pick the newest server possible. I don't like to rely on alliances to help me and I didn't know about those "hiding resources and stuff" till way late into my development. This is something that takes time and it's quite stupid (if not outright arrogant) for experienced players to think everyone can figure all this out by their 1st week. Maybe where all the buttons are and how to build...but definitely not all the offensive and defensive mechanics.
As for me, I'm lucky because I'm one of the early birds in server 2. So i had plenty of time to learn and defend myself. So do yourself a favor and try the newest servers if you're just starting! :)