So it has been found that the game has been geeked. You spend some money... build you city fast, then all you do is attack the surrounding valleys and then abandom them. They become level 5 NPC's. Then when you get built up, you just plunder them over and over. No waiting.... you have 5 or 6 level 5 NPC's to plunder. Now we know why teams are ruling servers so fast.