Okay let me break it down simply for you and others DeathKnight.
All of the quote you pasted from Foxy Bunny is mostly true, i am not really debating that point. What i am debating, or rather showing, is solid proof in nice and easy viewable screen shots of how Evony's implementation of a 'fix' is going to cause more damage than do any good.
To further simplify it:
At maintenance Evony cleans 10% of NPC's and dummy accounts (As in, accounts started up to fill a flat for short period of time).
Now say 1 player creates 10 dummies in there state to fill up potential teleport invasion flats. So 16 people create 160 dummy accounts.
Next day maintenance happens again, clears another 10% npcs from the server and there dummys. now you have the 10 dummys from yesterday and more npcs removed.
So now you will find 2 people making dummys to fill those invasions flats per state, say 2 people now creating 8 each making 16 per state and 256 per server.
Im sure you can put the rest of the jigsaw together - the rate of growth for Dummy accounts is exponential and Evony will find more people quitting.
Also in response to FoxyBunnys quote you pasted.
No food equals no troops no strategy. If you make instant catapults 1,526 attack, which is huge exp, how do you expect anyone to achieve that with hitting the odd lvl10npc
Hiding behind an easily captured npc isn't really hiding, now having a ring of dummy accounts around me is hiding that WILL cause 4 hours of attacks as nobody can get close.
Clear the npcs by all means, get new players in by all means to have no chance against people playing for over a year by all means.
How can one hardware address be enabled to create as many accounts as they want. The idea was solid enough, your solution was poorly thought out and implemented.
Your evony team is small compared to the amount of players. Makes the most basic sense to ask the playing community for some ideas on your future changes, as 1,000 different viewpoints/angles are better than 5.
On a side note, to further concrete what i say if anyone still has further doubts, Bones is still here creating dummy accounts and this is the first sign, the tip of the iceberg - starting to surround castles with accounts that cant be interacted with thus creating FoxyBunnys 2nd solution in having 4 hour attacks. Takes maybe 1 day of side playing to get a dummy account up to a prestige point where it doesn't clear in a maintenance
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