There is a difference between topping up gold when you are low and, spending indiscriminately on merging, auctions, golding up villages e.t.c.
In regional rounds the gold has a bigger impact.
Can't really blame MAD for abusing a system designed to be abused.
One thing I will commend MAD for is their dedication.
Dedication in sending attacks day after day, dedication in making sure all fakes and reals are timed perfectly, dedication in having accounts active and able to respond to defence calls at all hours. My hats off to you guys if you did it legitimately, I won't say what I think if you didn't. But either way, very few teams play with that kind of dedication. TM managed to pull off a few good ops but doing so continuously and so relentlessly is something else. Personally I think that was the difference between the two team. Whoever ran out of steam first, would fall behind
Now if only we could give punishments that actually hurt, instead of an arbitrary 10-25% off population that can be easily recovered in a couple of days with gold.
Hackers, multies, bots are all part of the COMx experience. Pretty sure it's in the terms and conditions you agreed to when making your account. Read them carefully next time. 
This is gonna be amazing. Can't wait.
Finally something for the speed players
Woah this tribe has too many nerfs in an attempt to balance increased CP production. Expensive troops, long training time, slow, poor catapults and chiefs.
But I like the amount of thought that has gone into it. Travian should definitely look into it.
Not to mention the new report format is incompatible with travian-reports.
I can't read the conditions cos the font is rubbish...
....so I guess I qualify. 
Been quiet here recently
followed by 5 chiefs.
The only thing I want is a 5 tribe 3x Legends server. Make that happen please.
Yeah only Danilo can compare Oranges and Apples.
The rest of us have to play by the rules.
Hey guys let's compare a physically demanding team sport to an online browser strategy game. They are so obviously the same thing, that we can apply the same rules to both.
Yes, I agree.
The interesting thing here is that the introduction of new tribes would have been the perfect time to give the Gauls a new toy as well. But unfortunately it was overlooked.
Its actually only a 1.5x cranny size now.
One of the best ideas people have in regards to the cranny and trapper is to merge them into one building for Gauls. Essentially a cranny that can build traps. And then design a new building for Gauls.
Also Romans also get 2 tribe specific bonuses. HDT and double Trade Office bonus, both infinitely more useful than what Gauls get.
Seriously can we give Gauls some love already.
Why are travian so adamant at leaving them with the worst building in the game, let alone worst tribe specific building.
Something similar to the Teutons Brewery that allows them to boost defence by 10%. And if you want, an interesting drawback could be that troops stationed in foreign villages have a x1.5 crop consumption. Not useful for standing defence, but great for a mobile anvil.
Technically you're question gave a scenario, and travian gave a generic answer, not exclusive to the scenario you posted. i.e. not in the context of the original scenario.
As far as the answer goes, it's essentially saying, your friend can 'generate' villages for you to chief, but assumes that that account will also be played as an account in itself, and not just for the sole purpose of generating a village for you to chief and then be deleted.
So what reply did Senapsgas get in reponse to his question? Since the forum staff seem so eager to keep everything we could all learn from in private messages instead of sharing with the community.
Why is 'god' a swear word?
For the record I used to love these threads back in the days and I'm seriously disappointed we don't have enough people sharing reports now.
Especially now we don't even have to hide the players, makes it that much more interesting. Keep posting reports guys. Even the little ones.
I agree with the above. Maybe it's too difficult to enforce that particular rule. So why not tweak the mechanics of Path to Pandora slightly.
2 Options:
1. Capital can only be of the starting tribe
or
2. Don't allow tribe specific buildings to be built in in any village that is not of the original starting tribe.
Of course that might just lead to a 100% Egyptian start for everyone, but at least it's not taking advantage of a rule that can't be enforced.
