The change is stupid. let me justify since the admins said that it was a test and they wanted constructive input.

Im currently doing stronger than i previously have ever done, i changed close to nothing in my style of land trading.

So the effect of the result, ZIP is on 100% land built at 300k acres. Thats dam huge and the sets only half done. In addition If he had chosen to not build he would be significantly higher in acres. And thats with solo land trading! he hasnt even hit anyone else.

If i were to let the country Zip supports a mandingo (#942) 299,331 acres farm my countries right now there would be absolutely no doubt that he would finish as high, if not higher than most of the previous sets.

So this made no change to the game.
If we want to extrapolate and combine ZIP with some support. Get a member who is willing to let you farm them and Zip would easily achieve the previous sets acreage. Get 2 members who are willing to let you farm them and you will get who knows what!


Look it on a smaller scale, so making 16 countries even instead of the 1 huge country. As rockman said, doing it solo you can get 120K-150k acres average.
Get 1 friend that wants to exchange hits with you and you both easily smash that size if you so wish to.