Since my last post I have come to see the necessity for fight ans sabotage attacks. and the reasons for their use which I fully grasp so thank you, Freya.
I think another route we can take (if we choose to, its not the most honorable route but still one nonetheless) would be the 'so what? in your faise!' alternative, which is to let them do as they please but not relent nor stop us being a constant PITA to them.
We are useless to them for VP, useless to them for Silver, yet taking everything from them without knowing when to quit. Bit devious I know but the more they attack us the more they will be wasting their time and open themselves up for attacks by others and we will still be knocking at their door. Call it the roaches approach if you will. After all, all we want is their silver not the VP (kinda like a gold-digger in an old folks' home. Actually, kinda like the All Fails, but with personality).
[Edit] Basically I'm saying we become like the All Fail when they were such a pathetic nuisance last phase that we just ignored them. That could be us except we know we can take on those we attack anytime we want.
Here's an example of what I have in mind. It's a post from the DB forum:My alliance has 3 level 10 plus camps and are being killed by an alliance with 3 level 3 camps. For the better part of the past two days, we pounded at each other, keeping all of the camps at 100% damaged (Not to mention, since attacking larger camps earn more VP, I am sure there are a lot of other attacks coming our way as well). At this point in time, it is too expense for us to fix our camps as it costs 6000 silver a %. And the repairs don’t last long, as SSs die within minutes. Please correct me if I am wrong, but it’s my understanding that 100% damaged camps provide 0 benefit in attack/defense bonus and VP, so our camps are fairly worthless. To make matters worse, because we have a higher camp level, winning a battle for us means we get a fraction of the VPs that they get. So in the past 6 hours, my alliance has earned 1/3 of the VPs that our enemy has earned even though we are a bit larger in size and have higher camp values.We can be like the low level attackers the person talked aboutThe risk in that is ofc they will come knocking at Westerlands and impede our progress there. But then again thats a risk with any response we choose. Anyway, it's an alternative way that, as i've said, is not the most honorable. Just thought I throw it out there.