Peacetime

A players status can be peacetime when he/she does not have any wartime going on with other players. During peacetime, your city can be scouted, but cannot be attacked, unless someone declares war or uses a Wage War without Declaration Stratagem on your city. This changes both player's status to Wartime, and they can attack each other.

During Peacetime you can still attack and farm NPCs for food and other resources or items