I applaud Plarium for accepting the fact that their one size fits all initial gift was not right given the enormity of this mistake.   I'm pleased to see they have started implementing a solution based on individual effort during the period in question.  Still down 31million offense and defense was a wash after clearing all my BGs during the first day of the brawl.   This does bode well that Plarium is thinking beyond a one size fits all solution that was insulting to all those that put in enormous effort into the first day of the event.  Execution was not the best but I'm glad that they have taken action to restore my desire to continue playing this game.

PS - King Kong what league and server please?

Little did we know that the laugh would be that the roll out of insance compensation would stop, seemingly in mid flow leaving some accounts with the insane gains and some without them.

It was random enough that players would be showered with few troops, in some cases billions, depending on whether they happen to play BG's hard on the 28th Dec.

Now we have a situation that only a random selection of those people have the crazy leg up and others don't.

So we got our laugh but not in the way I expect. To say this is a total cluster now is an understatment. Virtually everyone is unhappy.

Server 1 - KOK btw.

Apparently the stats have updated now, so can't get screenshots of the gain/loss from the stats page as I had hoped. The biggest gain was this person (who took screenshot immediately after comp roll out):

 

As no one person went paritcularly hard (I think we were in 9th at the time the rewards were fixed), no one is on for that much free stuff from the comp. So far for the leauge the total troop gain was no more than about 250-400m (judging from league stats from yesterday).

What is clear though is only a handful of people got the compensation. Looks like 4 accounts got it, the rest didn't. I did BG's on about 8 account but none of them got comp. That was all def BG's which lead us to speculate that perhaps only offence BG's got comp (the ppl that got comp think they mainly did offence BG's) - But it's not a big sample size to conclude anything from.

You can kind of see how it might possibly go wrong. Some massive coiners complain about "their losses" to Plarium. My understanding is that quite a big part of that was PvP losses. They demand their troops back. Plarium being as clueless as they are, remburse ALL troop losses for offensive actions, not just PvP, but including BG's where the players was the "offensive/attacking" party.

Equally if could be the compensation script broke in the middle, or even that part way through the compensation someone noticed how insane the amount of troops they were adding was and stopped it, to consider what was going wrong. We have no idea, cause we are all in the dark.

Yes the gift that keeps giving - I still applaud the attempt to make a fix specific to the situation just the execution was done poorly,

We understand that this can introduce some kind of imbalance in the short term, but we believe that it was a good solution in the long term perspective. Many players suffered because of our fault, so we decided to take a risk and help them get back on their feet after their losses. We concluded that restoring the original rewards would be more dangerous for the game's balance than returning the troops.

We will analyze this situation to understand how this decision affected the game's balance.

TBH, the off troops I gained were very few, it was the first day of what everyone thought was a nice league contest, so everyone and their dog should have been hitting pvp, b/gs or hamlets really hard to score points for their league and as such the compensation given by plarium should have been roughly equal for everyone, with the def players (like me) taking a hit. Still what is done is done. Let the subject be closed and if you are sitting in the cold then maybe next time put in a showing in the league contests, everyone gains.