The times people did level freeze because of getting those sweet sweet resources, are long gone. It's all about the smackdown. Heck, there are people with lvl 50 and 60k power and people with lvl 68 with 90k power. I know that they are level freezing, because I played plenty of new servers in the last 3 months, just for 1-4 weeks, for the kick of starting from a new and they remain on that level.

But people now even start freezing at lvl 43, just to smack people around. We have 3 of them in our own group. What a fun experience for everyone who moves thru the levels xD.