My replies are in brackets.
- A very small handful of players have acquired MORE that 222 sectors and/or have acquired sectors beyond ring 10
(My point exactly, a small portion of people who have earned the KP to get further in the research tree, while the majority are still well behind thus having smaller squad sizes and weaker armies to fight and win).
- The majority of players have NOT been maxing out their production of goods,
nor have they been using those goods to negotiate sectors that were soft capped for fighting.
- The developers understand that folks have been building a LOT of manufacturing buildings, even buildings that they have to leave idle because they can't support them, because that's how folks were maximizing their scores.
(The above 2 points can go hand in hand. Have less factories at max level or have more factories at a lower level. Either way, for the majority who are not in chapter 8 and cannot produce orcs are now blocked from negotiating. They negotiate because they are not a fighter or their armies are not strong enough due to not having reached the required research to have strong enough armies. The orcs being a road block makes for one less way of earning KP to get to that research).
- So the developers have now introduced a soft cap for negotiation:
Orcs are now deployed as guards when you negotiate sectors more distant than Ring 10.
(Guards are a person/ object/ structure/ area of land that protects another person/ object/ structure/ area of land. The orcs in this game are not guards, they are not appearing as enemy troops for us to fight. They are being used as an exchange/ trade good, much like our tiered goods we manufacture).
(Maybe everything thing is rosy and peachy on Arendyll, the same cannot be said for Felyndral. Nearly 1 month since the MASSIVE purge with a smaller purge late last week. After nearly 1 month, there have been ZERO replacements. The other 23 fellow members I am with all say the same thing, ZERO replacements. Since another 30 day cycle is about to end, guess what that means MORE PURGING, ugh).