Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-1820055-20141004021359/@comment-137.146.125.136-20151117061734

Area 3 is kind of a bottleneck for free players. You really need to outlevel them by quite a bit (and have the 3*+ troops to do it) in order to beat it. Otherwise you depend on using your CEO power which you can only use something like 3 times a day (you still need good troops though) and the power expires between battles.

BUT THE GOLD ISSUE. TOO MANY THINGS USE GOLD and there are like negative one ways to get gold (questing). Compare that to the relatively little use for any of the other resources (besides bread) and you come to a fricking standstill way too often. I want to upgrade my buildings because I've been at capped resources for 3 days but I don't have the gold. I want to do a takeover so that I can make use of the bazillion doubles I get but I don't have the gold. I would like to craft some equipment with the resources that are filling up my bag, but I don't have the gold... you get my drift.