gkassimis
Hipparchus
when you attack back someone who attacks you to show you re on and suddenly you stop doing it, then he becomes suspicious.You can still hide it by getting BP with long range hits, quests, or having a teammate put you in siege.
@Back2Basics
its not always because you are bad player or you dont have a good alliance that you lose cities before entering VM. last world i played i lost a city this way despite the fact i had made preparations. i had over 100 cities on red islands from a total of 170, i had stucked with defences the 20 most dangerous, i had parked to teammates my offensives except my flyers so i wont have to dodge attacks and still i lost a city i had 1k birs and 10k dlu inside. when you have 20 inc cs and hundrends attacks to almost all your cities, when your commnder becomes useless from so many commands, you cant do much.