Lower kd sizes

[WolfDGrey]

lowering the number of players in a kd, will most likely drop the number of possible tactics you can run properly.

That is simply not true. If you take the permutations and combinations of 25 players + the number of spells + ops + attacks the number is so enormous that you will never use all. The sad part for you is, that the number, realistically is just as unbelievably high with 20 players, a.k.a. you will never-ever use all the possible actions.

Thus, it is safe to assume that if you used 20-100 different valid tactics before, after the change the valid tactics will be around same number. And yes, there will be different tactics, so we're coming to this:

I'm pointing out that there is a difference in tactics if you change to 20 player kd's.

And different tactics is bad, how? By giving people something new? By making people less bored? By making them to adapt and learn? By making them to invent new things?
I always thought that the above things are good.

Would reducing the KD size to 20, affecting 341 players, make Utopia a more competitive and fun game? Maybe maybe not. But at least now we have some numbers to work with to understand the ramifications of such changes.

Thank you comport, awsome post. At least we know that with the data we have now, ~0.5% of Utopia would be directly and negatively affected by the change.

Now we only need to find out how many of those are not real provinces, sat, abandoned, inactive, waiting for a long time for new players. Because I have a feeling that, from the 341 we would substract another good chunk if we'd know the real numbers.

As I said it would be awsome to have those numbers from Thundergore or S&B.