I totally agree with Medivh . I have been waiting and hoping for these Champions to get to us for ages.... I have a rarely used Fb castle but I can easily see how much we can do with these features . We all have our Plarium server castles and armies and league assets that we have been building and/ or buying stuff for, for years now, but we cannot move them to the Fb servers .
Plarium put in the newer castle improvements, very nice I have them too . But now if you wish to attack a castle with lvl 10 walls and improvements even if you have an army at the maximum attack force limit allowed by the game mechanics you are not going to get through against a much smaller defense with the plus 10x CDB bonus ....Castle fighting without these Champions is fairly ridiculous . All we can do is send a few FBs ....Boring and useless.
Empty Beacons abound on the Plarium servers. 1-2 yrs ago we had fierce fighting over these Beacons. Now with the changes in the game mechanics allowing for a relatively few wealthy coiner players to amass HUGE armies , it is impossible for a league to successfully defend Beacons against a 3 player league attack from a trio of wealthy players .As it is now with the current large army sizes a Beacon will need a minimum of 6 Billion of defense PER BEACON.....we have something like 114 Beacons on S2 ...with all off those Beacons being defended with say 1.5 Billion defense , 3 players on a league could go slice though every single one of them on in an hour with few losses . I know our guys could, so someone else can too . The number one league ranking spot can be easily attained in an hour or 2 by anyone with 100 pathfinders , easy to take over the map as it is now ...
There are a lot of great things on this game otherwise we wouldn't all be spending so much on it . BUT the game mechanics have changed and the game is dysfunctional. Plaruim HAS found the solutions to this dysfunctionality , great and wonderful solutions , but they just are not currently giving them to us.