In a game that is already heavily tilted in favor of the older player, they go ahead and basically hand the new players yet another "screw you" change?

New players have already been handicapped by the lag that would not allow them to even log in for much of their BP, attacks that have been successfully launched against players on BP, and terrorist tactics by members of certain top alliances in which new players days, or even hours, out of BP are wave attacked by players triple and quadriple their stats, essentially wiped out, and then told to either 'pay tribute' of 60% of the resources made by the city they are left with, or be hounded no matter where they go...even across servers. Some of it is bluff of course, but some is very real, and is happening.

And now, the Dev's just made another change that is not at all new-player friendly.

Can anyone say underhanded way to force new players to have to buy stuff just to even play now?