[Tulac]

Not true, there is this thing you know it's called fleetsave, I fleetsave so often that no one can crush my fleet, and also use attacks on lower ranking player as sort of profitable fleetsave, the point is that if you invest heavily in your defences you'll loose sooner or later, but if you fleetsave properly no one can harm you...
That's the beauty of it, if you're smart you don't have to dedicate your life to it...
So basically if you fleetsave properly no one will be able to hijack your resources, you only have to play extremely aggresively if you want to be first, I don't play it to be first I play it for fun...