They're not even that bad... I got 10 in a month which if you think about it isn't bad. This game isn't supposed to give you 10 cities in a month, it's called working for it. In the older servers you get medals all the time and getting a high title wasn't a very difficult feat. Now you actually have to make troops, farm level 10 NPCs (those drop the most medals for me), and work at it.
To have 3+ cities when you are still in BP is unfair to the game itself, it's not supposed to be so simple. I've been playing since late September early October and I have 5 cities. Instead of spending all your time complaining about the drop rates yall should be farming medals or working on your main cities. Because, honestly, I've seen people that haven't even finished their main city or secondary city and they want more cities. I'd rather have 2 strongly fortified cities that can support themselves rather than 5 cities that have to transport resources to each other to stay alive.
But that's just me.
Server 66 by the way; so yes my server does have low drop rates like the other new servers.

Any comments? lol