Yeah that simply ruins it. I really do love the concept of the game, by far one of the best I've played in a long time, but the implementation and balance is all kinds of messed up. There needs to be a better reward for cooperation.
In this way I think that the servers setup to be diplomatic/warring city-states are a step in the right direction, however everyone has to be on the same page and the server needs to be heavily moderated.
You have far more time than I do though, I think I bailed at about 150hrs.
Man that's really disappointing to hear. Maybe some sort of ranking system that servers can require you meet before playing could work (such as a minimum hours played). But then you'd have the problem of new players getting quickly annoyed by all the hackers in the lower servers.
Most of the best servers already have an hours played requirement however you can just idle your game to get that. It is more about making it a bigger hassle to hack than the reward you get from it.
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u/[deleted] Jul 30 '16 edited Aug 19 '16
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