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Nonsense. They way you play these games says a LOT about the kind of person you are. Plundering and War have nothing to do with one another. How you treat your enemy after the battle has nothing to do with the battle or its tactics. My general take is a rabid plunderer would also be one of those apt to be a looter in time of Civil unrest.
I take offense at this comment. I consider myself a sheepdog and not a sheep. If you want to judge people in real life on how they play a game, then feel free, but you will be wrong more often than you are right. I, like many, use games as an escape. By reading your posts it seems like you are a pretty jaded person that seems to see the bad in others. I prefer not to live with that mentality.
The neighborhood problem affects a very small portion of the players in this game. I agree that it is a problem, but not a significant problem. 3-4 ages in difference is fine. And I have seen players of a lower age with a ton of points and able to beat players that are an age or more higher. Points and ages don't tell the whole story. ALL of us, except for the very few who started any given world, have been at the bottom of the hood at some point. Play long enough and with enough patience and foresight, and you can rise above most other players. People need to quit playing the victim. Just because someone is at the bottom of a particular hood doesn't mean they are the victim of an unbalanced hood system.