Things to Keep in Mind in Kingdoms of Camelot:
The first thing to keep in mind for the Facebook game Kingdoms of Camelot is that other players can only take your resources (gold, food, wood, stone, ore). They can't actually destroy your buildings, conquer your city, make you pay tribute, or anything like that. They can kill all of your troops, but only if your troops are set to defend the city. Which brings us to tip number one:
Tip 1 - Set Your Troops to Hide In Sanctuary
Click on your castle. Up near the top of the Overview tab, there are some buttons that say "hide troops in sanctuary" and "order troops to defend city."
You want "hide troops in sanctuary." Why? Because your attacker is going to win whether you defend the city or not. With your troops in sanctuary, they won't die with each attack, and you won't have to keep spending resources to train new ones over and over. It may sound like the coward's way out, but it saves up your resources to do more helpful things in the long run - things that will get you out from under your attacker's thumb. In short, the best defense while your might is still low is to not defend at all.
Tip 2 - Upgrade Your Storehouse and Research Shrinking Powder
Next, you want to secure your resources. Kingdoms of Camelot provides you with a wonderful building called the Storehouse, which allows you to save 100,000 of each resource per level from being plundered by someone else - which means 900,000 food, 900,000 wood, 900,000 stone, and 900,000 ore when your storehouse has reached level 9. Make upgrading the storehouse a top priority.
In addition, shrinking powder will allow another 10% per level to fit in the storehouse.
A level 1 storehouse with level 1 shrinking powder will therefore fit 110,000 of each resource, while a level 9 storehouse with level 9 shrinking powder will fit 900,000 + (90% of 900,000 = 810,000) = 1,710,000 of each. (If you get nothing else out of playing this game, you'll at least get really good at basic math.)
Shrinking powder is researched in the Alchemy Lab. After you build one, it's third from the bottom in the technology list.
Tip 3 - Keep Your Gold Low in Kingdoms of Camelot Facebook
Gold is the only thing that you can't protect. Even so, there are ways to keep too much from being stolen.