Fact is INNO ruin this game when they made insta-buy a thing. It allowed heavy gold users to quickly gold out armies if other alliance members fed them resources or they traded in the market. But that wasnt enough for INNO or their greed; they then had to make gold trading a thing. This did help some of the non gold users get gold. But soon, as any hack, it will get discovered. INNO found out gold users were making alts and trading it between the accounts. So they made a new gold trading market which fully benefits INNO in making money by the ress:gold ratios players spend on gold and trading it for the resources.
So the point is,
if you do not buy gold, INNO does not want you to play their games. This is a pay to play game. The new moderators set in place are here to help INNO maximize there profits by changing the rules of Grepolis instead of enforcing what the written rules actually are. This is to help out the large gold spenders by taking away the rules that gave advantages to non gold users.
As clearly stated above, stop crying if you do not have gold. This new regime has clearly made their agenda clear to cater towards big gold spenders; they will even fabricate unknown rules to help them play if they keep spending more