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Originally Posted by Light
Added to the fact, that any drastic change to the tag limit completly ruins the makeup of the current alliances. It isnt so much a problem when alliance limits are raised or when alliance limits are lowered slightly. However, if theres a huge reduction in the alliance limit, it means alliances are forced to kick out there less active members. That doesnt increase the competition, it just means that activity becomes more important in recruiting and semi-active/casuals can no longer play in the 'big' alliances.
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Last round we had 5 serious alliances that considerably exceeded 40 players, of those only 4 still play. Thus it only would effect a minority of alliances.
Also shouldn't activity be the deciding factor on how alliances perform, and not how many semi-actives you can drag along?
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Originally Posted by Light
If alliance tag limits get reduced to 40, then even if the lower active players decide to band together to form new alliances (theres no evidence to say they will, evidence points to them just playing casually or not playing at all which means PA will get reduced revunue), then what happends at the middle-end of the round where we always see a huge reduction in activity from the planetarion userbase? With a drastically low tag limit, you're going to have alot of inactive/disbanding alliances at the end of the round.
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PA should not put even more concern towards lower active players. They are pampered enough as is.
It might be that the kicked players (the number will not be very high) don't form new alliances. But it is more likely that they will join another tag instead of playing completely random.
As for the activity drop...from my experience this hits larger tags worse than smaller tag, since it is not the core players that tend to get inactive but those you fill your tag up with.
Smaller tags decrease the obstacles required for creating a competitive alliance, thus might be incentive for new players to form their own or BGs to leave bigger tags and play under their own name.