Using gold is what keeps the game running,
and in as to that making things unfair for you i beg to differ,
1. i was third in the ocean before i bought any gold, 5th in overall abp on the world. up to this point the only gold i had bought was for my manager guys the fab 5. Spending 12 -16 hours online and 5 min farming, having an island with no real enemies and 3 decent sized inactive farm players that generate up to 15k resources a day each, and again being on an island with no enemies so i could focus on pure offence and development is what got me there.
2. i'm already on ur island, so i'm no threat to you as far as getting captured, id have to be retarded to cap your town, ^^ and despite the fact your in an enemy alliance, and your alliance leader mass sent silly recruiting messages to all our members
which we got quite a kick out of... I personally like you, i think your a good guy, and your message was polite you sent me, ^^ so I wasn't planing to attack you at all.
I'm a nice guy, just got outta the military, got some time on my hands while i take classes online ^^ i bought the gold cuz i plan to spend alot of time playing and wanted to up my entertainement, the gold is much cheaper then even one night out partying with my friends and it helps support the game.
4 the first town i took was an alliance mate that quit and asked to be absorbed. I was cs ready and he was in a good spot so i took it over, i was cs ready without any gold use.
5 the player who I attacked would have been in no position to remotely hinder my capture of his town if i had attacked him before buying the gold, he had almost no army and i had been farming him on and off when i had time since a few days after the world opened, and he was far from any useful allies, it was a 2 hour cs time for me.
Based on all of that while I agree using gold does give me an advantage I feel it in no way influences your the situation you are in.
^^
And just so you know I'm not holding your post against you even though I think the tone of it unfairly paints be in a negative light(or at least that's the impression I get). I wont hold it against you because I still think your a good guy, and I know sometimes when things aren't going your way it can skew your perspective a bit negatively.
Good luck with the fight when it comes to you, wont be from me. ^^ Cheers