Slayerviper - I hope you stick around to see the Final Changes. Based on some of your comments I feel you may have not seen the revised changes, so I encourage you to look at the 2nd post to see some revisions that have been made to the original proposed changes.

Couple things to point out:
I certainly disagree that we will see an UD server. UD will be much tougher to play as well as is popularly believed on the forums at the present time.
The gains formula tweak (if implemented this age) will certainly not promote bottom feeding, in fact our aim with the formula will be just the contrary (although I don't expect anyone to understand how the formula will work based on a simple example given to illustrate a specific aspect of a very complex formula).
Persain has presented some good numbers that actually show relative nw provinces of the same size will not be able to hit a t/m more than once, so I don't quite understand the theory that every attacker will quad a t/m.
The simple statement that 'sage is weak' is not very compelling, and I would simply argue that you are mistaken and be content that our discussion is over based on the depth of content in our arguments :)