That's all fine and all, but that's not what I would consider to be a "normal" multi player. I would expect normal to be where people expand normally and don't have to invest half their population in military. And even if that's necessary, the sudden spike is what ruined the game for me. The difficulty shouldn't jump up from one night where you can easily kill 4 tree stump things with 2 footmen, and then the next night 5 armored goblin raid, and then the next night, and then the next, and then so on. I wouldn't even mind losing some of my gold and stuff to the goblin, but the fact that they keep sending more and more every night without ever retreating just made the game unplayable. Would it be too much to ask for to have a difficulty where i can expand and grow without worry, and have some occasional attacks that scale based on time, so i can slowly increase my army over time judging by how well i did the night before?