Scouts
I've just thought of idea.
Instead of just having a scout tech you could have scouts that you could train at you barracks. The scouts would enable you to see what is in other players cities just like now but they could be killed if your scouting lvl is lower than the persons you are trying to scout. This would make battles more unpredictable and players could lose a small bit of prestige when there scouts get killed(like a half) scouts would have to be numerous to be effective but would not be that hard to make. Just a though
Instead of just having a scout tech you could have scouts that you could train at you barracks. The scouts would enable you to see what is in other players cities just like now but they could be killed if your scouting lvl is lower than the persons you are trying to scout. This would make battles more unpredictable and players could lose a small bit of prestige when there scouts get killed(like a half) scouts would have to be numerous to be effective but would not be that hard to make. Just a though