This is very interesting. I've been holding off on attacking anybody and even stopped producing any troops since they just kept getting wiped out. So it seemed like a waste of ressources.
But now with the jobs and reputation I'm definitely going to start looking at that aspect of the game as well.
Do you think there's going to be a way to not have your troops defend a base? So you don't risk having them wiped out, but you can still use them for attacking and sending ressources around?
You can keep your units safe by moving them to one of your other bases while the first one is under attack, but yes, you would need to be online for that ;)