You could build a orc town (so you can unlock more than 222 provinces) play as an elf, and build a minimal town with 1 barracks, some armories, 1 level 30 needles, minimal production to unlock provinces, a fire phoenix and as little expansions as possible, just do not place those darn things.
But this is not playing the game. Advancing through the chapters and building a normal city is the game. The tournament and events and Spire are all just extra stuff you can do or not do. Maybe Inno is just tired of all the players who stop advancing to focus on something that is not the core of the game and do not care if the players who only care about the tournament quit?
I think this really gets into what ppl actually enjoy about playing this game (or any game for that matter.) Inno might have built this on the idea of a city building game with things like spire and tourney as extra or supporting events. But what ever a player enjoys about the game is what keeps them here. They might not care a lot about city building but enjoy the fighting aspect. And some might like the building aspect and hate the fighting. But what ever it is they like to do, for them, that is 'playing the game'; whether it was originally intended by the creators or not.
As for crazywizards comments in the post i partially quoted... you almost outlined what iv been working on the last year or two! I just finally finished orcs so im close to being able to try my strategy. I just need to lvl up my shrooms AW and unlock enough provinces and then i should be able to 2 star 25 provinces each and every week while being able to fully restock my military.
Its taken so long because its a lot of AW leveling. But when they introduced the Fire phoenix; that was the first time i really aw this as being something i could achieve and have been working towards it since. (i was still in the early chapters with maybe 1 aw built. So i had a long way to go irregardless.)
But now i have the L21 Golden abyss and L12 Mountain halls for the extra pop i needed.
Chapter capped barracks and a L21 Needles for fastest training speed.
L11 Bulwark and Lv3 shrooms (these two were recently placed, so have the least work on them) along with some armories for increasing the max amount i have in the barracks que. That way its training all night long while im asleep.
And of course, the building that makes it all possible this early for me, My beloved Fire phoenix and her +50% damage to units.
All combined, that means i can train more units and at a faster rate. And have stronger units.
So im that close to being able to do 2 star, 25 tourney provs. (better rewards this way while still reaching the minimum 1600 points). I was hoping in a month or so to be ready to do a full 9 week tourney test to prove/disprove its validity. Fight every week, fully retrain army by the next. See if it worked, or needed improvements. Now this tourney over haul will probably be implemented right in the middle of that >< ... but i cant complain to much. The system does need an over haul. Just gotta love the timeing on a personal level.
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