Quote Originally Posted by Valin View Post
WOW!!!! Guys, I just had a moment of absolute clarity, and what I found out terrifies me. I originaly posted that noobs didn't think complaining about NPC farming through, but now I realize just how devious those little buggers are. Think about this.

In WWII, America could have gone straight for mainland Japan but didn't, because such a fight would have cost the lives of millons of soldiers. Instead, they started an island hopping campaign designed to cut Japon off from the resources Japan was plundering for the South China Sea and the Indonesian Island area. With out those resources, Japan would be unable to function as a war time economy. Their home resources were fine for peace time economy, but not war time economy. Once those island resources were out of Japanese hands, Japan had effectively lost the war as their army would starve out due to lack of resources.

Guys, the noobs just did that to US. Without barbs, we are unable to function as a war time economy, and thus, just lost the advanced vs. noob war. HOW DID THEY FIGURE OUT HOW TO BEAT US? My whole world has just changed.
You are forgetting a subtle difference. In that scenario, America had an army. They had a way to fight back.

Newbies don't. Thats why they were left alone. They only had 30k archers, why pick on them when you have 70k ballista and could kill them with few if any losses.

Now if you want to keep your 70k ballista, you have to kill them, farm them until they quit, or flip their cities.

People will be able to pull it off, they will just end up with a wasteland around them.