I can still barb farm.

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I have 9 of those around me.

they recharge every 8 hours. If I send out an attack every 12 hours I can make 50mil food and 8mil gold per day. And that is not even counting the assorted lower lvl barbs around me. And I have enough ballista to hit them all simultaineously.

But all of you who are so smugly satisfied at the way they have 'fixed' the game are wrong in every respect. Those of us at the top have already figured out how to overcome this minor hiccup. Barbs are not nerfed. Defenses have just been boosted to the point where we can no longer attack each other without losing all our units and causing no losses in response due to the massively overpowering of archers towers and archers when defending a city with lvl 9 walls. So we have to turn our attention elsewhere.

Gee, I wonder who that will be. I may have a harder time building an army now, because the barbs I can farm give me less resources and less gold. But I have no real problem keeping my army fed. At least not for the next couple of months, anyway.

Get over yourselves. You are all terribly wrong about what the effects of this 'fix' are. You haven't been helped, you have been even more horribly screwed.