What does it really mean?

Please dont beat about the bush, saying like "it depends on admins" and "there is no fixed answer to that"

Just answer generally and truthfully IF you know.

I personally see crystal farming as an incident when a player has no intention of winning/doing successful in the era and they are only in an era to give crystals to the person that they are helping. That is my opinion of crystal farming. in the case of a sub if a sub gives the crystals to the main in order for them to win then that is farming but if they do it because they know they are going to lose the crystals to the enemy and they let the main have them that is not cheating as that is protecting the xtals and stopping your enemy get stronger

Lets assume there are 3 alliances A,B,C

alliance C is ranked 1 and has double power of alliance B
alliance B is ranked 2 and has double power of alliance A

all 3 are equal in activity and startergies and tactics.

Alliance B backstabb's C

After 60 sleepless hours, alliance C, fighting against almost Double their army,finally manage to kill B's armies but only after getting pushed back to their (C's) hive and losing every resource op they had to B and while killing B, they lose 1/2 their army.


Now nothing stands in their way, they are free to claim their prize and try and rebuild BUT heyHO.

there was a secret deal between A and B and before C could even move a step, A comes takes every single op, res op and crystals of B.

C realises that B was actually a sub of A

now C is in shatters having worked so hard, losing everything and then in the end even their rightly claimed prize.

C dare cant fight A which has almost 4 times their army and 10 times their production.

ads.... so fair right???