I've put all my resources into:

1. Building up my fields.
2. Building a giant cranny.
3. Building legionaires so I can farm people. (Currently have 20 of them.)

Along the way I built a barracks, marketplace, embassy, rally point, and lvl 3 wall. With the gold bonus on iron/wood/crops, my output is 110/110/81/30. (That's net on crops, not gross).

I can't decide whether to build a flour mill (to bump crop production), build up my barracks so I can get an academy/blacksmith/armory, or maybe build up a hero's mansion so I can go take over an oasis.

So far, in all my attacking, nobody has attacked me back and I've never encountered any troops in anyone's village.