AMA & BB ruin the game

[Zauper]

I agree that "You don't war in the top 10 and that's a fact" doesn't hold up. However, that's not what I said. Those top KDs that have warred 3-4 times warred their way up and took the acre rewards upon win (I believe your KD is one of them, waving Pyro oop?). I'm speaking about warring KDs that explore up oop in order to pump and then war down later. If the goal is to stay in the warring tier, there is largely no point to exploring up.

Although it may not be enticing for you to spend your time "aimlessly" in-between wars, a lot of warring KDs just like to either take down time after a long war or just keep waving right after they leave eowcf, and they're certainly not wrong to want to do so. As of now the mechanics haven't really aimed to streamline the disparity between NW and warring KDs, and to be honest I'm not sure how it can be done.

Interestingly, of the 6 top kds with 3+ wars, only 3 of them have a winning record (and a fourth is even, at 2/4).

There's nothing wrong with downtime between wars -- it's just that downtime between wars on 500 acres is spent buying science on 500 acres, which is meaningless when you hit 2k -- or much less impactful, let's say. There is also more strategy in wars when you're larger, frankly -- and not just in the ways you can prep (such as soldierpumps) but in the more stark difference between chained and unchained provs and how they can interact with eachother.