Any success stories or are all doomed to fail?
I kind of wish they would stop merging kingdoms, unless everyone is on board with a singular goal it's going to be very hard to achieve any degree of success and all that happens is that half the kingdom defects/joins other kingdoms with goals they want to strive for leaving behind a skeleton of a kingdom that everyone is happy to feed on!
I don't think it's helping the game, we are already losing players and not attracting enough new ones, I don't have a solution for a better way to deal with the handful of people from a previous age but surely this random merging isn't it?
I've seen some mention smaller kingdoms but I don't like that idea either. Maybe give the kingdoms a choice, do you want to merge or not?
Posting here, because this is as much about strategy of running a successful kingdom as it is about suggesting a solution to dealing with handfuls of players in half empty kingdoms.