Protecting resources (iron, fuel, copper, aluminum)

Click on your depot. Be aware of the current level of resources it will protect. As an example, a depot at level 11 will protect 600,000 each of iron, fuel, aluminum, and copper. This means that if your city is attacked the levels protected by your depot cannot be taken by your attacker.

Now view your current resources. If you have more than the depot limit of any resource type be aware that an attacker can steal anything above that level.

Strategies:

Do tasks that will use your resources to keep them under your depot limits. This is particularly vital when you know a kill event is coming up.

Always keep resources you win or earn in ITEMS, MY ITEMS until you really need to use them. They cannot be stolen if they are in your items.

Send resources over depot limits to a player with a shield up or to our piggy bank. You will lose a bit in taxes but its better than letting your enemy steal the lot!