How about a ten second window between when your crops mature and when other players can pillage them. I have been in my farm as my crops matured and I still couldn't get the full value of them as vultures were waiting. Its fine if you forget to be there and you get pillaged, but when you wait for them and still cant get them that's weak.
Battlegrounds need balancing. Anyone experience a battleground where the top 10 were all on the same side? Not much fun to be on the other side of that. I mean I dont mind losing so much, but how about a little more competitiveness...