You have a game that's out of control in terms of play balance - and you need to do something about it. Forget quirky little gimmicks @ Easter and various Holidays, sit down over your next big team meeting and sort this situation out. It's like the big kid making up rules playing monopoly when we were young, just so as he could bully his way to winning. In the end we didn't play with him anymore .....

We've just had the idiotic situation where one coalition is demanding a name change, top players to move over to their side in exchange for protection. Protection racket more like. Prior to this particular incident we've had warnings (many times) not even to go near any of players from the top 5 or so coalitions for any reason (raid, besiege etc.) in fear of partial or total wipe out. WHAT! Any game worth its salt gives back game play with periodic mishaps & calamities - god even snakes and ladders doesn't crash you ALL the way down from the top - what would be the point?

So - let's see what can be done to broaden the narrow pyramid of power to a broader more even and equal playing field for all our sakes. Tough decisions need to be made, play balance mechanisms need to be introduced; gently over time - I'm not advocating overnight change. Lets see if we can have a few hundred coalitions vying for dominance - much more fum, much more equal, much more interest and quite frankly much less arrogant.