Maybe he bought some sapphires but I don’t really consider the guy you mentioned on your post as a coiner after looking at the screen shot. If you ask me the reason why you lost is because you had a lot of offensive troops defending, which is bad. You lost that battle because you kept all your troops out. You are…

The option to pay is not necessarily meant to speed up the game for the long term. It’s only meant to speed up the game for short intervals of time. Like I need 30000k gold really fast because I built too many pikeman and do not have a settlement so I will just buy some for 40 sapphires... Nobody has the money to keep…