Quote Originally Posted by mulch View Post
It's not like this is the first time this has been discussed on these forums, and I've never seen anyone who thought it was a sensible or productive game mechanic.

The only valid reason to have it work this way that I can imagine is because of the multiple-account players having one or more farm accounts to feed their main. But from what I've seen, they get around it by keeping the farm team outside of the alliance and using plunder instead of transport.

I used to be one of only a couple in my alliance with over 1M prestige. This feature didn't actually come into play often, because almost always the flow of troops and resources is from higher to lower, and in wars our enemies always avoided attacking me, focusing on the low prest players instead. So my feeling is it's just an outrageously stupid game design element, but does not come up very often in gameplay.
I see, and what did you mean plunder? how can they transport by plunder? how is that even part of the game mechanic lol.