Originally Posted by
Winter Lady
Wilmington, If I understand correctly, this homes change proposal won't affect the majority of Utopia running 20% homes to draft/maintain BE etc (in fact it gives a better boost) ... its basically designed to normalize the gap between mid-tier and top.
Top can afford to sit around on low/nw per acre, stack insane amounts of GC (50m+), then switch to 70+% homes, draft deep for 48 hours, train all of their 20 solds/acre in 1 fell swoop since the entire top is CF'ed.
This insane GC stash is also often used to finance wars in the mid-tier. Imagine your kd on normal econ warring another kd of same size but they're stealing (or being "funded" by 1 of these top kds) so that they can churn out more military and dragons on you. End result you lose the war due to this massive econ disadvantage. The payment the winning KD makes is free land to the gold funder post war.
This change would mean that the top and mid-tier pumps pretty much the same way and there's less "under the table" style of playing. It will still be done but not to such an extreme.
The change also benefits those at the top. Lets say KD A and KD B have war agreed in 72 hours, allies of KD A will steal the massive GC stash from KD B to give KD A the advantage, thus affecting the war outcome.