I chose Business. Was it a mistake?

The title seems a little unclear and if you are wondering what am I talking about then read the rest of the story. I am very much into online gaming stuffs; small miniclip games, big games, social networking games I play whatever games I find online. I don’t play pc games that much but I am a very big fan of online games. Lately, I started playing Travian a browser based games. It’s been like few weeks only. Actually, I knew about this game long before; lots of ads were seen in the web and I knew it was something like “Age of the Empires” or “Rise of the Nation” type of game. But at that time I was busy playing some other games.

Anyways, a friend of mine asked to me join this game saying it’s a very cool game; you should play it. I said what the hell; let’s join and give it a shot. The game was very boring for a week but then it began to pick up its rythem and now I’m beginning to enjoy it. It doesn’t take much of your time (unlike Mafia War which too I play daily) may be ‘coz I’m just a beginner but still it’s starting to like it.

When I started I was following the tutorial (the soldier like person in the right who used to guide in the first) and then he asked me the choose something like be “business man” or “military man”. I chose to be into business but now that other army are attacking me there is nothing I can do in Travian. I have levelled up my resources and buildings quite well but the players who were the starters in this game and pro at it are raiding my village, stealing my resources and I stand helpless. I talked to him and he even threatened me to destroy my buildings (which I don’t know if he can do or not). Now my question is can I do anything about this? I mean the first person who joined this game (in my server server3) is going to be like king or what? He must have enough resources and troops and he can easily bully us the new commers, steal our resourced and destroy our buildings. There is a starting protection shield for 7 days but then in 7 days how much can you grow. I can’t even seem to produce any troops from my barracks as I am being continuously attacked by some tough guy and he’s stealing all my resourced. Huff !!! He’s really iritating me. Help !!!!