defense has been generally inadequate in the game, but. Notice that the developers did respond to a comment that tower range at 3 was inadequate, so now our towers are hitting at 7 (or 6 for ballista towers.). I see game developers responding to our concerns so that is great. I think the weakness of defense has forced people to spend all their resources each time they log out, to minimize losses. Sometimes you just can't because you're trying to save for a big upgrade. That's when you have to expect one fourth of your resources to get stolen every time you log out. One for the blackbird, one for the bee -- one for the beggar-man and one for me! Whole game is slower and slower and slower if you're not buying crowns -- it is the only way to make time be on your side. Personally I may lose interest when the time lags get too long. I can only get maybe 20 k of resources on a mediocre raid, making a 500k improvement crazy expensive. Also, if I only have 10 workers, i we'd rather have 6 of them available to hunt the bear that yields 18k gold ... The balance issues get worse when we look at the high cost of upgrading vs the low yield of raiding.