If someone wants to strip farm you they won't care if your allies are over priced. The idea is destroy the strip farm target, not find good allies to buy.
So... You expect the player to magically come up with 24 billion gold then turn into a hansel? And you didn't clarfiy my other confusions... And you didn't even explain how to become one. You just said okay first you need money. Then build some buildings. Now you're a hansel! This thread needs a bit more work.
Then I will stick to reading the guides that people spent MORE than 5 minutes putting it together. Thanks anyway.
It's a good guide for the update. Since pwars are done for, the lack of plunder for SoS is redundant. They will help more with EBs then the Guilds will