Exactly. I think that's likely the case. For a new player that isnt aware of the 24hr cycle or how this specific aspect plays, it can easily look like you were just hit twice. And it can be devastating to an early cities production when that happens repeatedly.
This is a good point, and one that I think gets overlooked somewhat on this forum: how these things impact beginning players.
We're veterans here, we know how this stuff works. We know that things that are impactful when you're starting out become inconsequential as you age up. New players, they don't usually get that the situation is transient, and that it's completely under their control. Might take awhile to get there, but it is.
The standard answers of boost defense, collect on time, and try to make friends; dont really explain how that function works.
They don't explain specifically how the mechanic works of attacking, then waiting right up until the 24-hr clock expires before plundering, then attacking and plundering again right away, but if you're collecting on time and making sure everything is motivated, you don't
have to know how that double-dip plunder works. You can look at defensive losses as what they are: meaningless, 'cause you can't be plundered anyway.
Even though there are no specific rules against it. It is bullying when you consistently take down those who have not had the time or opportunity you've had when plundering a single person over and over.
Gotta disagree with all of this. It's not bullying and it never has been bullying. You could maybe stretch the definition of harrassment to include what you describe but I would never associate it with bullying. And even then, come on...the 'hood changes every two weeks. Suck it up for a few days. It ain't that deep.
I suggest talking to other hoodies. Create a thread that shares the bullys defense info and when anything is open to plunder. Organize yourselves and take some of your things back. Even if you cant break them on your own. Someone in the hood almost certainly can.
Nothing wrong with that, except for use of the word "bully".