No you could not make those accounts and crush the game. Do not lie. You could never manage 1000 accounts.

I could create 1000 accounts, yes, easy... But yes, I would not have patience to manage all of them for sake of just winning my point, but its possible and some people would have the patience to do it, and that would take anyone a lot of time to populate all the universe manually logging with each account, but automating the login via a script on a browser is possible via some automation tools (so I guess depends on how skilled people would be). I was mentioning this as an attack vector to the game and not as an economic mechanic attack vector where one would need to create resources, etc... and manage the resources... instead populating all the universe defies the problem you are just trying to bring into the table, which is not enough users. And my point is, "you still don't have enough real users" by doing some fake accounts to create resources for people to attack.

Either way, the point like you said is that we don't have enough users. But being open and transparent about why these things exist is much better way to convince people to stay around than just trying to fake up strategies behind the scenes, which gradually will make people understand that there is no point of playing. This is my view! You are happy to disagree.

Players will not play when they have nothing to attack.

I don't agree... for example, I like to play with the economies of scale and dislike constantly attacking. So at least you have 1 person that does not fit into that format, and in fact, there are others that I know that would prefer to not even attack too, because they just want to explore how the game works and go through the mechanics of the economics of the game.