Quote Originally Posted by chinothepony View Post

In fact, on top of that you can destroy a paying player's city and steal it or reduce it to a barbarian town, taking away what their real life money has earned them (indirectly).

How's that for power to the free player?
Actually, it is now virtually impossible to do that to a town of any size, that was run by any one other than a half wit. Game changes have made the game virtually unplayable as originally advertised.