Lower kd sizes

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However, one of the benefits of lowering KD sizes is to spread out the talent of top KD's to the bottom KD's. This would in theory reduce the effect you're describing as these veterans would teach their new KD mates how to compete and hopefully at the same time show them how competing can still be fun.

You assume the people from the top would be willing to go to a lesser Kingdom, which under ideal conditions would happen, but currently it probably would not. I can say for one, that I have no intentions of ever playing in a ghetto again, unless my old KD mates came back which is unlikely.

My argument is that Utopia is losing players due to lack of competition. Lowering KD's will increase competition. This really can't be argued against as a major aspect of fair competition is equal KD sizes, which I've shown would be significantly increased by lowering KD sizes to 20 players.

There will still be SKD's and Ghetto's. Regardless of the KD size. But the fact that there will be doesn't at all diminish the fact that there will be greater competition overall.

This is the jist of the problem and hence why Bishop argues that this fix will be temporary. With any feeding Hierarchy it is shaped like a pyramid in order to sustain itself, with the bottom (ghetto's) being in the largest quantity and the top (SKD) being the least. The mid KDs will feed on the ghetto's and everyone will get fed on by the Top. Now, no one likes to get fed on age after age after age, hence people in the ghetto's tend to be the first to either quit or find a better KD. Which means the numbers of ghetto's decrease IF THERE IS NO NEW PLAYER INFLOW. When ghetto's decrease, then mid-tier KDs have no one to feed on and the top tend to feed on more mid-tier KDs, causing mid tier KDs to transform into Ghetto's, and so on and so on. Thus reducing the KD size doesn't solve the underlying problem, hence a temporary fix.

Now, you could reject my argument if you also reject my assertion that players or leaving Utopia principally due to lack of competition. If so, what do you believe is the primary reason people are leaving the game, and would lowering KD sizes accentuate that problem? (If lowering KD sizes doesn't make matters worse based on your reasoning of why people are leaving the game, then what is your opposition to lower KD sizes?)

Your right players are leaving, but players left utopia even during its glory days. But the difference is that more players joined, hence the ghettos were always full. By making this change you hope to increase competition and because of that people will not leave. People will always leave even with the most ideal conditions, this would make them leave slower, but because we have almost no new player base growth this doesn't solve the underlying problem. Which is we need more players.