I just joined one of the top fellowships in Felyndral, currently ranked #5. Half of the fellowship is in the orc chapter and it has slowed nobody down. Everyone is very active and helpful and are giving me advice on how to fight. Nobody has made one negative comment about the battle system. If you let the negativity about the battle system run a muck throughout the fellowships, of coarse people will want to quit or boycott or whatever else everyone is trying to do to protest.
I can't remember when I started playing this game, but it's probably a year-ish or more. I'm in Winyandor and I would definitely consider myself a regular player - I play just about every day, and I'm ranked in the top 500 and my FS is around the Top 20 mark.
When I started, there were a ton of things about this game that are now different. If you weren't here then, respectfully, you have no idea how things worked at that time. You cannot judge older or more advanced players as having somehow been "doing things too quickly" or dismiss top players as "most of them having been using diamonds freely".
It's great that no one in your FS has made any negative comments about the battle system (that you know of), but it's not great to suggest that those who ARE frustrated (for a variety of reasons) have no reason or invalid reasons to feel that way.
I just created a village on Felyndral even though I don't intend to play there (sorry, neighbors!). If you are the player I believe you are, you have 30K points. The top player on Felyndral has 221314 points.
The top player on Winyandor has 265815 points. I currently have close to 90K points. The top player in my FS is ranked in the Top 20 on Winyandor. They certainly are experienced. And the feedback they and 3 top players from my FS who just left the game completely have definitely not been positive about certain changes that have been happening in the game.
I'm not going to start a game on Aryndel to see how much points that top player has, but maybe someone else wants to look it up & post it. If
Aryndel was the first world started, probably the points amount is even higher.
Regardless, my respectful point is that it's nice that this game is working for YOU or for your FS, but that does not mean it works for everyone and whether it is your intention or not, some of your wording comes across as dismissive of those who actually have more experience playing this game than you do, and who have been playing longer. Now, that doesn't mean that older/more advanced players are always right, but it sure doesn't mean that their perspective counts for nothing, either.
I agree with Bobbykitty's comparison about camels & how for so many, this is a last-straw scenario. Honestly, I *hope* newer players don't know how it feels to have their Archmages or other top players quit the FS because it totally stinks. I don't blame the players at all - what stinks is that the game is less & less fun.
I won't cross post, but on another thread in this forum today, I wrote some examples of what I'm facing in battle scenarios. Keep in mind that when I started playing, there were no "suggestions" via treasure chest boxes at the beginning of chapters on where you "should" or "shouldn't" progress to. In fact, I had so few neighbors when I was playing that scouting to farther provinces was key in order to find trade partners & people to visit me and who I could visit in return.
This is a game. It's supposed to be fun. I don't begrudge you or anyone else their fun, and in fact, I *want* new players to have fun so they stick around! But as someone who's fun has diminished by increasing increments, it's not a pretty picture I'm looking at.