I came back to TW after a few years, the game isn't nearly as fun. I played my village pretty well but casually, I watched as one player (near me) hit 16k points as I hit 3k. By the time I was about to build my academy he nobled me to. Rising up to about 20k points in a month of playing. It isn't strategic. The guy traded on his market hundreds of times as well as sent out over 10K attacks in a month.
It just promotes insane growth.