unfairness for a stone ager

once you get towers and offensive troops, BOOM you instantly CAN get attacked by some bored jerks, that have nothing better do....

and what can they send to attack my town? 40 building destroying troops, followed by some spartan-looking swordsmen, i dont even have such troops.

the thing is that i am in stone age, there should be some sort of protection from higher age people that can gang up on me.

my ideas to deal with this problem are :

1) in the beggining the player should be able to build towers, without the need of unlocking technology for it, this way the player can prepare himself, before going to face the cruel world by advancing in science.

2) building and its building speed mechanics should be entirely changed - instead of the percentage of how fast you build, you get workers who can be assigned to do one or more tasks. if you assign multiple workers on upgrading/constructing a building , the time to finish it will decrease, but the resource intake will increase. There should also be a way to ''super'' upgrade the buildings, basically what it means is that, one level in upgrading can be very effective, lets just say you assign 100 workers, 100x times the ammount of resources used than regular upgrade cost,10x times the time, and then you get a super level 2 tower that has 2k hp and 30dps, you can change the values of how much ammount you place into super upgrading, and the ammount of workers used, that will lower the result ofcourse...some buildings couldnt be super-upgraded, just to balance things a little...

also i was thinking of this other new idea - you can ''upgrade'' your troops, as in terms of mastering their skills ( not weapons and armor, because you can already upgrade them.... ), so lets just say there is a level 1 Brave, then you upgrade him to be level 3, he will basically be faster, stronger, this type of upgrading is what i like to call ''mastering'', and level 3 is the maximum your troop can achieve. to master your troop you have to click on the building from where he is trained, and click to master troop/s , and yes it is possible to master multiple if you have special buildings called ''training grounds'', the more you advance through the age the less you can master in one time, meaning that you will need to keep upgrading the training grounds...

Most players, (and yes, free players too) have researched towers before their novice protection wears off. And most of the things that you mentioned are already available in the game. It is up to you to learn them or get to know other players that can protect you and help you in the game. 

While the war aspect of the game can be pretty intense, there are strategies that can help you to prevail.

okay, sorry, i was a bit unknowing of the game when writing this. BUT even if the players have the time to build towers, 5 towers with a level of 3 wont protect you from 40 building destroying troops, there are sometimes one of the nastiest  neighbors near you, either more time has to be given of novice protection or the newer mechanics of upgrading buildings as i've said earlier, in my main thread. 

I agree with anonymous.   A level 4 hero getting attacked by two heros over level 30 with everything they've got (including the ships) doesnt' stand a chance, and that 300% defence is absolutely useless against them.  Wood palisade level 9 and 8 rock throwing towers of level 4 are like a gnat brushing against them. 

There needs to be some fairness involved as far as the fighting is concerned. 

I have been playing daily since I started playing 28 days ago,   I have been upgrading buildings constantly.  I dont expect you to 'dumb down' experienced players but I would like to see some fairness for those lower level players.

I dont see how those two players started at the same time as myself. They've been playing for over 50 odd days.  Say what you will, but the fighting in this game isnt fair, and I'm speaking from my own experience.

It may be that I dont spend any money buying upgrades

The rule is that no one more than 30 days older than you can attack.  That is what was meant by starting around the same time.  You are asking that you be off limits for what period of time?  As it is no one who is 31 days older than you can attack you.  That rule was implemented last stage precisely to give newer players some relief from heroes that were more than a month old.  Anything longer would change the game and not for the better imo.  :-)

Youre correct, the fighting in this game is not fair. But not the way you think, it is unfair to the attacker since this game has too much for defense vs offense. Those players ahead of you play the game, fight monsters, finish dungeons.. might even have more time to play. And you would be surprised, many of them use no money. You have the same exact potential as everyone else, use the game and tools given.