Lower kd sizes

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Forced mergers historically do not go well. There's usually a powerstruggle as both monarchs don't want to give up their leadership (even though they can just be co-monarchs and work together, but hey, people are dumb), which eventually leads to a split kd and ultimately, you're left with either a civil war, or people just start leaving. Which brings you back down to a 16-18 player kds yet again.

I've been through mergers before when I was Monarch of one of the halves. I can tell you for sure that there was no power struggle and the other monarch was fairly useless the whole age. That what happens when Ghetto's merge, their a ghetto to begin with because they have little history or attachment to their leadership. Most in ghetto's have drifted around for ages hoping to end up in a winning KD. Its when their KD starts to lose wars or not attempt to war enough, that people begin to leave.

So how is forcing 2 kds to try to get along a better option then a kd reduction?
Oh that's right, because your kd wouldn't have to deal with it.

I'm not agreeing that forced mergers are good, but the option to merge with another KD of your own choice might have merit. You get to choose who you want to merge with, You get a full KD, You get STRONGER leadership because it was a mutual decision.

Which is excellent! No more kingdoms but instead all kingdoms get filled. Then atleast competition on an equal footing would be possible. No matter how you try to twist this proposed change, having x players distributed over 25 - y kingdoms gives you more kingdoms than having x players distributed over 25 kingdoms.

You would think that competition would be of equal footing, but I doubt it would happen. I have explained this in my earlier posts but I will explain it again:
Right now there are a bunch of KDs int he 16-22 prov range that war each other (for Mid-Tier). Assuming you war around equal KD NW, the KD with fewer provs will have greater NW/prov than the KD with more provs. But in the end you are still warring those group of people. Now lets assume a cap to 20, and those 16-22 prov KDs are all 20 provs. You would still be warring the same group of people. Why? because the ghetto's are still too ****ty to compete with a mid-tier, and the SKDs even at 20 provs will still be out of range before mid-tiers are ready to war. In the end your still warring the same group of people as you are now.

this is why I usually don't like people who play in the top kds. They think everything is always about them.

If I was so very desperate to win a crown, I'd get in touch with ABS. If I wanted to help improve the enjoyability of the game, I'd do what I'm doing right now.

Get your head out of your ass and stop thinking about yourself.

I don't like playing in my KD for winning crowns. I like the leadership structure that is present in my KD, which is why I stick around. And this is my argument. KDs disband NOT because there is a lack of players, its because the Lack of competent leaders. If your KD has a good leadership structure you tend to win more, by winning more you have more player retention and a easier time to find active players. Competition only rises out of KDs facing other KDs of equal leadership, not because the KD prov's are imbalanced. Hence as I said earlier in this post, you will still be fighting against the same group of players except all KDs will be of 20, if you lost to a KD before over and over, you will still lose even post change. Why? because their leaders are better than your leaders. People, especially new players will always want to move into a ever improving KD situation until they find a KD their comfortable with. Hence KDs with weaker leadership will find a hard time recruting people, its not the KD sizes' problems that created this current situation. Therefore with this change your really looking to punish KDs with better leadership. This is why I argue that voluntary mergers (not forced) might be a better solution, since if the 2 monarchs both agree before the merger how they will merge, it could potentially create a much stronger leadership core than either KD had before, and because the leadership is now stronger they will become much more competative.