I don?t have 25 lvl 10 round each city. but still, on the lastly merged ss you need lvl 10s as those have food in, unlike lvl 5s which you are likely to be farming with up to 5 people due to the space constrains. And when you loose 3 lvl 10 in one go from 1-2 miles from your main city... Sorry, but that is huge problem. And npcs up to 2 miles are often target. I lost several like that within 2 miles! (all lvl 10 and 5) in 1 go. That is the reason so many are complaining. Imagine you get online and your city is sitting in the middle of flats all in 1 mile radius, the nearest is 2 miles away. would you be happy? I would not.

And if people want to have 30-40milions troops (guess per city?) they can if they want to spend that much time farming. I don?t.