Your number of cups is too high. Everyone with the same number of cups is eight. When they see you, Qi will take away your resources. It is enough to reduce the number of cups to about 1200, and the competitiveness will be accepted. There is no need to be so high at this stage. If the number of cups is low, there won't be so many people better than you. Although there are more cups, there will be more rewards, but you will be robbed more and totally unworthy. You can also put the base camp outside, and someone who steals your base camp will not rob your resources.