Demanding money?

[West Esung]

Recently I was attacked and received a message demanding 5 million or "war forever". Is this against the game rules? How would I even transfer the money?

[Zei-Sakura Alsainn]

25 minutes ago, West Esung said:

Recently I was attacked and received a message demanding 5 million or "war forever". Is this against the game rules? How would I even transfer the money?

Against the rules? Not really. I suppose you could try and argue they're planning to war you out of the game, but you're city 5, which means you're dealing with a noob raider. Demanding money for peace is perfectly within rules.

This would usually be sent by sending a trade to the other nation, buying 1 food for the demanded amount, in this case 5 million.

To avoid this, join a real alliance. You are currently applying to is completely inactive (check the member list, the purple diamonds are activity markers, purple means inactive more than 7 weeks, red is 3-5 days, orange is 3 days, yellow is 1-2, green is within the hour and blue is active now) and even if it weren't full of inactives it wouldn't be able to protect you anyway.

When looking to join an alliance, thinks like rank and score matter, bigger more established alliances are better for new players and can help them more.

[Sir Scarfalot]

Also, lest we forget, do make sure to keep a large military on hand at all times. Raiders will almost never touch you as long as your activity is solid, you have maxed air, some ground, and at least one ship. Don't keep more than a basic warchest on you at any given time (between 1 and 2k each manufactured resource per city is good for your tier, just stash once you're at the high end).

Never comply with raiders' demands either, by the way. There's nothing stopping them from just taking the money and continuing to attack anyway, so they almost invariably will do just that. The only way to enforce a deal in these sorts of games is to have the strength to beat down the other side for reneging, which in the case of raiders should just be plan 'A' anyways. (There are advanced strategies for solo play that can work, but that's beyond the scope of your question now that you're in an alliance.)