And, re-starting servers is something that's for another debate.

My point more is that if you have say 6 servers, and cities close by to each other, instead of having to travel 4 hours to launch an attack or teleport to find someone to attack, then the game becomes a playable war game.

The ONLY thing you can build in this game is WAR units. So, the end result should be to be able to have war with each other and be able to ATTACK someone with a good defense.

Currently, if you find a good player to attack within 3 hours of you, you just lose all your armies because they've made some design flaws. This is not debatable.

You cannot attack a good player at all. That has been true from the beginning but NOW as most players have made their defenses strong COMBINED with new changes, it's made it IMPOSSIBLE.

My point is, management does not even see this flaw, or doesn't know how to fix it, so they tweak with the barbarian cities, and further ruin it.