"Unlocking Cities"

yeh Rill but newer players can benefit from this just the same as players with 9 or 10 cities.

If a guy with just 4-5 cities happens to get on the wrong side of an alliance and gets levelled they will be able to recreate their account again up to the previous level and it will be easier the second time because they will be able to build their cities again much more quickly.

And I believe you are totally wrong when you say a guy with 10 cities losing 2 is less of a loss than a guy with only 3 cities... losing a city when you have 10 means you are losing a hell of alot more building time and micromanagement and resources or whatever else you can think of - not only that but you on top of losing a city you will also lose the ability to rebuild that city (unless you want to go through the enormous effort of redesigning your entire account to max out population a second time.

The fact is losing cities is a massive loss whichever way you spin it - but the improvement suggested in this thread greatly enhances the potential for reconstruction, slightly lessenning the harsh penalties for losing an all-out war - which will in turn mean that the old established alliances/players will not shy away from PvP warfare quite as much.

EDIT: NB. I am not trying to say that Illy PvP combat is too harsh - I like the way there are severe consequences for actions - I just want to enable people to rebuild more readily so people are less likely to quit the game as a result of losing a fight, every war has a winner and a loser and I don't like to see a mass Exoudus of veteran players from the game every time we have an all-out war (and hence all-out war is now increadibly rare).


Edited by Createure - 27 Dec 2011 at 23:18

Rill wrote: I'm not sure that I agree.  Perhaps it's better that even really big players have something really significant to lose.

Edited by Silverlake - 27 Dec 2011 at 20:21

They still have the advantage of the last cities' research, but I agree with this.