Edit: Title should read: Removing fort: The worst change ever made in Utopia
Can a mod please edit? Thanks!
The have been a lot of terrible changes in the past few ages including hybrid LBG which makes it basically impossible to deep chain. But this is something else. This takes away our ability to become ready for war. Entirely.
We warred pretty much straight out of protection this age and won our first war. But as a result, we have a lot of rebuilding to do. We've had our EOWCF and are not even remotely close to being ready. One of our big problems is that our TMs were hit down during that first war and we have no way to help them recover. We want them to explore and grow back to a reasonable size but they just get hit down again during prosperous. Rebuilding protection is vital.
We literally can't get to a stage of being decently war ready. If we can't war, we lose players. I know it's early days so maybe at one point we'll be in better shape to war but it is going to take far far longer. Too much rebuilding makes Utopia boring. Finding wars is already difficult enough before this. Now the pool of war-ready KDs will be much smaller.
Fort had a very specific purpose of getting people back into shape so that they could war. It needs to come back.