No, it dosen't. It's does suck that UMGE thinks Nerfs are more important then the REAL problems in the game, but it's easy to work around. There's a LOT of people doing this RIGHT NOW, nad not a thing UMGE is gona do to stop it...
1. Capture more Flats
2. Build and then Abandon Cities
3. Presto! More NPC Farms
4. Make enough NPC Farms so that after you pillage the last one on your "list" the first one is ready to be hit again.
Congrats UMGE, you've made a game where there will be gazillions of NPC towns covering the entire map. There won't be an unopen flat anywhere thats not turned into a NPC. This'll happen on every server and UMGE will have to open several new Servers permonth just so a new player doesn't get a "I'm sorry, there is no place for you to build a city here" when they try to join in the game for the first time.
Honestly now, who the heck is the person, who is in UMGE, doing these "knee-jerk" reactions to stuff??? If you fix A you better consider what happens to B and C and even D. THIS guy thinks "Fix A, thats all that matters" and now your stuck in a problem thats a REAL one and isn't going to get fixed easy. Consider what happens if the Abandon to turn into NPC is taken out...take it ALL the way to D this time and you'll see what I mean.

