Most of the top 10 players have 150-450k ranking points from AWs (not counting the throne), yet it is very hard to reach 1000KP per week if you play the game normally. So either they have a 3-9 years old city in a 2 years old world, or something is very wrong here... I wonder why admins let this continue. Probably I played competitive games too much, that's why I cannot tolerate shameless cheating while others do...
Just a reply to the original post.
Though there obviously are people who will cheat in this, the amount of KPs one can get is really high. 1000 KPs per week is doable. Let's look at my situation, and I'm not too active anymore, mostly due to lack of time.
24 kp's per day from the regular hourly points.
3 per day from my Tome of Secrets
4 per 2 days from my Stonehenge (will count the average 2/day)
4 per day from the Ferris Wheels/Carting libs combination I tend to have up all the time.
1 per day from buying kps for gold. (only count 1 as that is my normal thing, but during events it often becomes more due to the quest to buy KPs)
That already makes 34 per day.
In the tourneys I tend to average about 26 provinces for 4 rounds. That's 54 from the rewards in the first 9 provinces, plus 5/province for provinces 10-25 in round 2, so another 80. Or another 19/day if averaged out over the week.
That brings the total (averaged out over the week) to 53 per day
Now I'm going to add the KP instants, even though they can only be used for AWs, but that was the whole point.
I'm in a relaxed FS, so we only do about 7 chests on average every week. That means that the chests grant another 55 KPs in instants every week. That equals 7,8 per day. I'll round it up here to 8.
6 Monuments of Ancient knowledge, 2 sets of 3, so every day I get to harvest 3 of them for 3KPs each, makes 9,
Mermaids Paradise for another 3 per day.
Total of these means 8+9+3=20 per day
That brings the total to 73 per day
NOT included here are
- KPs from Wishing Wells
- KPs from return investment in other players AWs
- KPs from crafted KP instants or crafted KPs
- KPs from the chest when gaining 100 VV from crafting
- KPs gained from events by opening chests (either 'pure' KPs or instants) or daily prizes
If I added those, I would probably already end near 90/day.
If I had a bit more time to do an extra round of the tourney, round 5 will grant another 6 KPs for each province after the 9th. I usually just don't bother since I auto-fight due to lack of time and the losses are too high for my taste that way. But that would in my case already mean another 15x6=90 KPs per week, more than 10/day.
Those who are far advanced and want to, can probably do 30-35 provinces instead, meaning 11 extra points per province (5 from round 2, 6 from round 5).
With such scores an average of 120 KPs per day is very well possible. If I can do at least 80/day while not playing too intensively such scores are very well attainable.
And don't forget there is a point where it becomes a self-enhancing effect. As military AWs gain in power, it becomes easier to do more provinces, and thus to gain more rewards with fewer losses. If one can do manual fights, the losses will be about 40%-50% lower than on auto-battle, so that means a LOT more provinces again.
Granted, not all possibilities have been around all the time, but the top players tend to heavily invest real money and that does pay off in different ways. And my example is for a guy who doesn't play too intensively. Someone who does could perhaps score 150/day on average if taken over the year.