Originally Posted by
Ashanta
I'm going to put my response above yours so it doesn't get lost beneath your wall of text.
If Rambo exists in the game, then they would know when to reinforce, when to not reinforce, what to reinforce with, where to attack, when to attack and when not to attack, and they wouldn't need players with half or less of their prestige to reinforce their cities or send them resources.
If Rambo is in an alliance where they have to do everything, they will lose. I use the name Rambo because the scenario you put out there isn't one of teamwork, but one of the one man army who doesn't need any help.
Depending on a single player to win a war is not teamwork, and if the player doing everything needs help they can dump prestige so they can get it. If prestige means so much they refuse, then they can be a paper tiger and lose. If they insist on getting reinforced by players who will get plundered doing so, then the problem is that player, not the game mechanic.
By the way, if a multi decides to kick their resource gathering alt so they can farm it, then they are exposing themselves to get banned under the "no military contact" clause.
As for claiming/inferring this is a design change, it isn't.