Yea this is a little dumb, you get thrown into a game that is already full of level 30+ players. Additionally while your base cannot be attacked during your initial safe time, your fleet can so there are a bunch of high level guys roaming around attacking low level fleets, you cannot refuse to fight and you cannot run, all you can do is die and loose all the resources you were in the process of gathering.
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