I didn´t like these changes, it is too much KP, it mainly benefit long time gamers that didn´t had their AWs fully upgraded.
Long time gamers like myself have shown a lot of loyalty to the game (and money BTW) to INNO for a long time. I think it's about time we get rewarded for that. In what kind of game can you show up as a newbie, and in a relatively short amount of time pass players who have been at it for years? It might make it take longer for you to catch up with us, but you will eventually if you keep at it.
It's bad enough that they leveled the playing field for the Tournaments so newer, smaller cities have an advantage over larger, older ones.
Oh and this new feature penalize KP hunters, looks like Inno at the end attended the complaints from those that got angry because someone gave them free 5 kp in their AWs (uuuhhh so evil kp hunters).
I am failing to see how this does anything but *help* KP hunters. You are giving away KP's, which the new system rewards. In exchange you receive KP instants. If you spend those on yourself, no penalty. Or, you swap them, no penalty. On top of all that, if you are lucky you score chests that have runes, which you can turn into more KP's. What am I missing, how does this hurt KP hunters?
Besides that, it is good that at last (according to Silmaril claims) Inno is trying to do something at respect of push accounts ( But they failed in the proper measure to stop them, affecting with this a sector of players that enjoy kp hunting).
There is plenty of collateral damage caused by the various attempts at preventing push accounts. The tourney changes hurt older cities that actively worked to upgrade their AW's, and grew their city size. Now, to be the perfect tourney city, don't make your city too big, build up only military AW's and buildings, and, if you got lucky and spent a ton of coin on the right events, score a bunch of Fire Phoenix (which stack) so your troops kill anything in their way. That's it.
I don't see this change hurting KP hunting, but I see it hurting certain kinds of KP trading systems, and fellowships that offer KP's as prizes and rewards for accomplishments. In addition to push accounts of course.
Overall, I think this is a great change, but needed and still needs some kind of communication to explain the changes.
Cheers!