Sparhawk122 said:

No amount of troops can defend a alliance asset now. The above said it themselves. 1 billion troops is not enough. What hope do smaller alliances have. 

It is unbalanced. We have overpowered base defense yet allianse assets with minimum defense options. 

Some players can only do alliance attacks. So if the alliance attacks and mercenaries were to be rebalanced it would hinder ingame bullies. Thus them not wanting change. 

One HQ had 100k enhanced razors plus lots of other units. Alliance attack made short work of them. Defense is not feasable. So what is the point. Go to another game where offense and defense balance is more equal and not lopsided towards offense. 

It does seem a lot are talking about defenses being up a lot, and not arguing here..I do not believe AA is going anywhere it's a feature added for a reason, but this thread should be a good discussion point to discuss the impact the feature had on gameplay.

huggybear255 said:

AA is not the problem. Mercs being overpowered might be some of the problem. The biggest problem is ego. The big players egos are hurt because they have no defense for the AA’s and can’t protect their assets without losing their 1 billion power army. Big alliances are trying to hold 10 Blacksites. Sure you can’t defend all that. Maybe you would have better luck with just a couple of Blacksites and HQ to defend?

 While the game is still about money it is way less about the big money now. AA’s can get in the pocket of the big money players now and make it hurt fast!

 No strategy now? I totally disagree. It’s way more strategy than just loading up assets to defend. It’s careful planning to organize AA’s and hit the correct targets. It’s way more fun than sitting around waiting for your troops to get killed defending. No longer do we have to cower down to the huge money player. We can get out and have fun with our troops. We get to decide when they die now and how many.

As I've always said on the forums, there is always two sides to a debate.. and I would like to thank you for sharing your side of this topic.  I encourage all commanders to get on and discuss the game.  Please encourage some other commanders with your views to join.

No amount of troops can defend a alliance asset now. The above said it themselves. 1 billion troops is not enough. What hope do smaller alliances have. 

It is unbalanced. We have overpowered base defense yet alliance assets with minimum defensive options. 

Some players can only do alliance attacks. So if the alliance attacks and mercenaries were to be rebalanced it would hinder ingame bullies. Thus them not wanting the system to become fairer. 

One HQ had 100k enhanced razors plus lots of other units. Alliance attack made short work of them. Defense is not feasable. So what is the point. Go to another game where offense and defense balance is more equal and not lopsided towards offense.