Simple solution : Leave town, go to work.
Get town founder / councilor to invite you when you are out working, walk back to town when finished working, accept invite, deposit large sums of money into treasury, go to sleep.
You can't be duelled, and won't lose any money. Town benefits even more because you left and went to work....
First of all, as like with anything else, there will always be disputes of fairness. Unfortunately, the game allows it, it'll happen. I'm not a habitual complainer, I just disagree and stated my point.
What I don't agree with the above, is joining/leaving towns.This is NOT one of the intentions of the people who developed this game.
So that is a way around dueling, which means you are saying you dont agree with dueling because you are not willing to accept the consequences of remaining a townsmember and getting dueled. In that sense, you agree with those who don't think the dueling rules are fair.
Secondly, the town doesnt benefit any more or less when you do this. Either way, if you are making money and you deposit to the Treasury upon returning (like you're supposed to), the 'town' knows no difference.
If higher duelers eventually cant pick on other classes/lower levels, thats a decent start and rightfully a good rule. But the amount of money taken and the fact that someone can be attacked like me like I was, was wrong. The point mainly being, I spent the better half of a days worth of work (I only log in once or twice a day to stack up jobs) only to have it almost all taken by me in 10 seconds worth of dueling. In this scenario, greatly reduce the amount of money taken, or as stated, limit the amount of times you can be challenged by the same user within a certain time frame.
Dueling is an appealing part of the game, but it should not be over-priviledged in the fact that whether you are working, constructing, or anything other than sleeping, you can be dueled without warning and lose everything that took you hours to earn.
I'm hoping they impliment some type of 'sheriff' deal where non-dueling classes are protected somewhat, before challenging everyone else in the town. Duelers should be able to challenge duelers equally without the sheriff being involved.