Anti scouting

Anti Scouting
Anti scouting is when you are being scouted, and your city tries to repel it. There are 2 ways to anti scout, Direct fighting, and Informatics Draw Out, both which I will gives examples later.

Direct Fighting
Direct fighting is when you your troops directly fight a enemy scout attempt on your city. You need your gates open to do this, and this will cause your troops to fight the scouts. This is a great way to fight scout attempts if you have the troops to do so.

Now for the example. Lets say I am being scouted by Guy2. I'm Guy1. Guy3 has reinforcements in my city. If I open my gates, all of my troops, and Guy3's troops that are in the city, will fight Guy2's scouts. Your wall fortification will also help.

Informatics Draw Out
This type of defense action, also called as IDO, simply means whoever has the higher level of Informatics wins. This only occurs if the gates are closed. I only recommend to do this if you have high level Informatics, at least 5-7. It is recommended to have Informatics at level 10, as it greatly increases the amount of information you get.

Example time! Guy2 is scouting me again, this time with too many scouts for my troops to kill. So this time, I will close my gates. I have level 8 Informatics. His scouts hit, and two things can happen. 1.I have higher Informatics, and it will say my troops had killed enemy scouts, then I will get a report on the fight. 2.The enemy will have higher Informatics, and it will say anti-scouting failed. He will get a report on your city.

UPDATE: If you have gates closed when somebody scouts you, the scouts will 'bounce' meaning that if your gates are closed they will just leave again, without doing any harm. Your walls will kill a few scouts.

Rare Occurrence
I have noticed a certain amount of scouting attempts sometime ends up with a loss of scouts, even though the enemy's gates are closed. I call this the RFSF [Rare Fatal Scout Fail] It simply means that something glitched in your computer during the report being made. This can occur while doing a malware or spyware scan, backing up your computer, or similar things. UPDATE: reports are made at the server, not in your computer. See update above.