You seem to think that farming is the only thing that makes a good player. It's not. In fact, a good deal of luck is required to even get to the point of 150 LC with a reasonable chance to rise up. For example, you could be surrounded by a mass recruited bunch of noobs who are all too happy to farm inefficiently their own individual barb over and over again, which while not really helping them get anywhere, leaves you with constantly empty hauls no matter what you do, and thus delays your ability to reach LC so long that by the time you get there, someone else 20 fields away is already farming you constantly. Or, you could be stuck in an area that is constantly getting spiked and leaves you well behind. Again, not that the people doing the spiking are helping themselves any. But it will similarly leave you in a position to be unable to get anywhere. Or, you could be 1 field away from some noob who thinks it's a good idea to try farming you way too early and happen to catch you during that 20 minutes when you're cooking dinner, and manage to wipe out most of your spears. Again, losing all their spears in the process won't help them any. But it will leave you far in the hole. And all that's just ways that you can be unlucky from other people playing badly but holding you back at the same time.