Players want to look small to lure people into attacking them thinking they'll be easy pickins. It is very prevalent on 129, and other servers I'm sure. You go to attack that little 200k pres guy, and find out he has literally millions of troops.

And big prestige doesn't scare anyone at high levels of the game. We went after a 1mil player shortly after BP when we were all around 200-300k pres, then we took out a 6mil player when we were around 600-700k. Pres really doesn't mean much, but with everyone dropping it constantly now it makes it damn near impossible to know who's at what level, outside of trial and error.