As an answer to the first part. While point whoring is bad, there is such a thing as troop whoring to much. If this truly is your first world then I suppose you're doing alright which is probably due to Et Tu? shoving information down your throat. You're at the points of the average noob but you probably have a lot more troops. As people have been saying, it is about finding the balance between troops and points in order to keep all ques going 24/7. I'm sure you've heard that there should never be a set amount of troops at each stage in points. Every world is a different senario and thats where his experience beats you. Now to tie that all together, he grew faster than you did meaning you had more time to build troops before you reached 3k points. Also, while high troop counts are considered "leet" I find that I can get along just fine without that number of troops. I was 2nd in ODa for quite some time in the beginning because I could continually clear all the villages around me with minimal losses (saddly I'm 21st now due to no one near me building troops anymore lol).
As for the second part, thats slightly hillarious :lol:
To be real though, if you have the amount of troops you claim to have then if should make no difference whether you're noble target know's they're being targetting. Especially if it is already cleared (and yes, catting it was stupid but you've learned your lesson :icon_wink