Can someone please answer the following question: with the new rivals the list the way it is, what is a player's incentive to increase their stats, other than for during WD events? You have essentially took out the advantage that those of us had with high stats for our level. I feel, and I'm sure so do others, that there is no reason at all to work hard (aka spend gold) to beef up stats.
Before the updated rivals list I got robbed/attacked once every couple weeks. Now I am getting robbed/attacked by people multiple times a day, in some cases, 5-15mil attack higher than my defense. Or, players with similar attack as my defense albeit 5-15 levels higher who were never in my news feed.
Please answer the question as this will allow me to make a decision to continue with my top 10/25 team and use gold or to sit back with a top 150 team and go gold free.
Thank you.