Game Needs More Good kds Competing

[Kern]

If I wanted people to just be bigger the OP would have said "Hey everyone, empty your explore pools". The game's filled with crappy kds who can EASILY improve if they would just challenge themselves a bit and make a push. There's also kds who are very good at warring and just call it quits there and ignore the other half of the game because someone somewhere told them that's not fun. It's stupid and I'm tired of people throwing around empty excuses because they're too scared to fail.

Again, my two cents:

I'm in a warring KD. There are quite a number of other warring KDs down here in the ghetto/semi-ghetto-size area.
Just take a look at the warwins chart: The FIRST one that's even vaguely recognizable to me is SPGC at #21, then Divinity at #50 and Pewpew at #55. Or maybe I'm just uninformed. Of the three, the impression I get here is that SPGC's not even considered "top" tier material alongside the likes of the Abs 3+1 gang.

Well, The Abs 3+1 isn't up on the warwins chart. Neither are Simians, BiO, or any of the rest you mentioned (unless they're not tagged or I missed some of them).

Now look at the warwins chart. Masks and Karaoke Machines are the only KDs in the top 20 that are above 15mil NW (10mil, even, because only BOB are right on 10mil). Many of those up there are in the 5-7mil NW range, like Eclairs, Spartans, Dirty Secrets and Modesty. Many more are on the 7-9mil range.

All of which means that:
FIRSTLY, if I'm in a warring KD, and I actually WANT to war against the best... to me, the best aren't like Abs sitting up there on the NW/Land charts. The best are the leaders on the Warwins chart sitting at 5-7 mil.

SECONDLY, these warring KDs I am looking at are perfectly well within my range. If they're not, fine, we'll do a little resizing cause they'll be only slightly out of range. Why would I go to all the trouble of growing up to Abs' size when I can find a satisfying war against the best on the WW charts? I might also be farmed all the way. If I am, it means I'm already not good enough to think about competing with them.

THIRDLY, if I get all I want down here (wars), why would I bother to focus on growth? It's a distraction I can do without. I'm perfectly happy. Call me lazy. Whatever. TO me, growth, or the lack of it, is a byproduct of winning wars, or finding a war. It's not the end, it's the means to an end, and not exactly something I want to spend so much time on.

Now. The issue you face, Palem, is that there's not enough competition at the "top". But here, "top" is a concept that can be placed where you want it to be. (NW? Land? War Wins? Number of people's ages you've screwed over?) 18 of the top 20 WW KD's are down here in size. So basically, what I think you want (I may be wrong, please correct me if I am) is for the ENTIRE SERVER to change their mindsets to match the top 10 in land, for a crown that not too many people find very relevant anyway. Which, by the way, sounds pretty selfish and elitist.

No, thank you very much.