Diplomacy is the key to success nowadays, not so much skills. Anybody can pump science and make good coin if you CF most of the server and have a 1/2 good strategy. +22.2% Population Limits. Small kd's or warring kd's that want to compete need to cf early and whore whore whore (smart whoring ofc), once your out of range of most of the Un CF'd kd's you change to an economy/science pump. Super easy but very boring. I wish to see more competition other then Floggers kd.

I was hoping That Meenie and Old School would have brought more competition to the top, not sure of which kd they are or if they exist still or what happened to them. BiO fell of, so hopefully one of those kd's in top 10 now can pick up a couple of good players from old top kd's to help them next age with a good OOP/diplomacy set up, this age is all but over for a non-absalom kd winning. It was nice to see a non Absalom KD win last age.