I think many others would join me in saying they are very reluctant to accuse people of abusing the system .... I know I have been accused of it to a laughable extent by people of varying experience (usually newer people). I never even heard of this exploit until the servers merged and we started finding these cities with unbelievable amounts of resources and started questioning "how?"

That being said, I have been on evony a very long time. I can add, subtract, and multiply. There is a certain point where the upkeep is impossible to maintain without something very strange going on. I know all the tricks .. I know all the strategies ... but it still doesn't add up.

I saw the botters come and go .. but I could still beat them, or at least embarrass them ... this is a unique situation. We do not know how to do anything but cower and defend against a handful or people who are basically Gods right now. And it is just a handful .... if all their alliance mates had millions of transports one could maybe argue that over several months, perhaps they supplied the upper handful .... but scouting the remainder of the liiance shows they are fairly inactive, and do not have the capability to supply those kinds of resources.

It is a very frustrating situation.