Even with the rampant topfeeding, there are still usually prince honor ranks achieved at some point in the age. It wasn't, once. Attackers were, relatively, much more resistant to T/Ms this age than in past ages due to wiz training speed and how quickly attackers were able to max science. I think that the science, combined with the topfeeding, really put a damper on honor ranks this age (except for emeriti and all of their bottom feeding gloriousness of course...smashing every single high-honor TM they can find in every war kingdom that comes out of EOWCF )