Quote Originally Posted by Mati2 View Post
Personally, I think in taking away this particular glitch, they shot themselves in the foot. It allowed people to support the kind of armies they wanted without turning to illegal software or many more extra accounts so that they can use the mech army and quickly build another without having to feed it long term.
No, they shot themselves in their feet when they refused to crack down on multi-accounting, botting, and account sharing.

The way we got to where we are today is because you can run as many accounts as you wish, with absolutely no fear of any punishment. You can also feel relatively safe running a bot, so people crank up bots on the alt accounts to get resources, then attack with their main account to collect them, negating the whole "low to high prestige" transfer plundering. Beyond that, any attempt to attack the main account is met with someone else logging into the account, so you can't get rid of the troops / take the resources.

Out of the players on my server, if it were not for the cheating, I'd be in at least the top 10 of the strongest players on the server, if not the top 5. As it stands, I might be top 50. Since I don't share my login and am spending a lot of time away these days, I can pretty easily be crushed by one of those ill-gotten large mech armies, since there is no warning of their approach given to the alliance as a whole.

One of the people that I know is cheating like this taunted me some time ago, asking me if I was "jealous" of what they achieved. I'm certainly not "jealous". I'm more disgusted with the company, that they appear to have no scruples and allow this stuff to continue...