yah. qz's alliance gotten beaten and farmed for a full two months this set. But the war was only competitive for the first 3-4 days despite them having higher numbers and comparable activity.

the idea behind this and the change for restarts to keep tech is to give an alliance with inferior strategies the ability to remain competitive longer.

edit: holybatman. I had a screen up for a half hour and a half a dozen responses were up in between what I was responding to and when I responded. this post was re: a question xin answered 30 minutes ago.