Originally Posted by
AquaSeaFoam
Elit, surely you agree that some leaders and some players are better than others and it is not just cheating that separates the good form the not so good. You are one of the best and it's not just due to cheating more than others. Even if there was no cheating at all, you would still have kingdoms that were much better than others due to better leadership, better luck with players, and more effort in killing off bad players to get better randoms. I have ran fully legit, completely untraded kingdoms such as my Age 4 kingdom that finished top 10. We could have easily crushed ghetto kingdoms just like a hardcore cheater kingdom could crush ghettos.
Whatever the cause of having good vs "not good" kingdoms is, the result is the same so there is no reason to blame it completely on cheating. Mehul has never said it was due to cheating and he focused on the "hyper competitive mentality." The competitive mentality lead to Battlefields kingdoms doing stuff like setting alarms, calling people, and, one would assume, cheating. The point remains that the kingdoms with 25 active provinces, by whatever means they acheived that, were fiercer competition than a typical WoL kingdom that had 7 active provinces.