TehCheese

Exactly right. After thinking about this some more, I summarize it as "being bullied or becoming the bully". The only logical outcome is bloc/alliance formation and confrontation. What sort of a new player experience will that create? I feel like we're in 1908, and we've just seen Bosnia get screwed.

Exactly right. Who's going to spend 1000 hours grinding out a base and defenses just to see it washed away by a group looking for cheap thrills every day?

Do you have any idea how many servers you've just killed? You had a serious problem that the community wanted you to address, and you just spat in their face.