so in summary, 4-star impact on tournament performance is going to be in the bragging rights section of the results, and not in the “impacts the vast majority of players” section.
Bragging rights? Like what actually happens with all those FSs with players that have a very big city with lot of manus that don´t need them just to high their bragging rights in total score? Or what actually happens with FSs that play hard in FA to brag about their results over others ? I don´t know what´s your vision of what this game should be, but every good game IS BASED IN COMPETITON, all of them, and that part of bragging, well is part of it, if your vision of this game is purely scatter buildings to make your city looks pretty or just have a great time with your fellows (both I enjoy to do BTW) is ok, but competition is one of the main purpose of this and many other games.
Sometimes I think players like you would wish Blueprints should be given for crafting or by other means so they can avoid tournament participation. I think inno should do this so tournament should be left for players that really enjoys tournament and competition itself, so you can care even less about us bragging about it.
I also suspect that due to the fact this applies equally to every fighter player, it will be a relatively minor impact in terms of how fellowships rank as the very top performing fellowships have so many players pushing so far beyond the 3-star threshold that they are likely to all be impacted equally. The numbers may end up smaller, your players may only do 35 provinces each instead of 40, but that will be the same for absolutely everyone competing at that level.
Yes, that´s obviously going to happen, the limit and stretch that a player is custom to normally reach would be reduced evenly for all top high score players, what´s not going to happen is what you said in some lines above : That players at 18 chapter would progressively get better results in comparison with 14-16ch ones cause they would get those 4 star units, that´s obviously not going to happen.
And yes, it is bad for tournament and Elvenar in general cause we´ll get even slower KP and spells, because no matter how much harder we tourney, a player that do much less, let´s say until 25 province ( and won´t be affected to much by the new changes) would get results of people that now will get lower results by those same changes. I really doubt you don´t see this, is clear what´s going to happen in that matter.
You have different view of this game than mine and top tourney FS and players. If your main purpose is only having a blueprint, and that´s the main purpose I don´t have nothing to discuss with you, cause we have different goals on this game and like I say, Inno would make you a real good favor if they took blueprints out of tournament prizes, so you can achieve them without having to play tournament, am I right?