I think this is a pretty good idea...Even if it hurts gameplay, op farming hurts it even more.

This seems like a rather downgrading change. I seen players build up large pop and spam few armor squads that were just accts used for spamming OPs after someone took severe losses and needed the OPs to raze for resources. The change would work in cases of the quickly made OP farm accts but what of the sleeper farms? I seen this several times where player A lost 30 squads and over the next 20-30 ticks over 40-60 OPs will be made, taken and razed by Player A made by Farm A, B and C and it will be repeated over the course of the game till their lose is inevitable such as 400 hostile squads in their area making it impossible to take and hold the OPs for razing.

Also, like some players mention of holding large amount of power and losing it in a battle. I went from over 200 power to below 40 power in a single fight a lot. Now you say you should focus on getting an army back should be the first thing you do but when war is on you dont have that luxury. When people need every single last bit of oil to move their army, they wont always have the chance to make the important OP for moving or perhaps their massive army leaves them worker less or so low on workers they need what they have to help them keep up with oil to move or metal changed to energy to gate(I know I done this a whole lot)

My points may be outdated seeing how I stop playing for so long and not know how things are done now days but still the change seems more harmful for the real players.

just give it sometimes will ya

well this update got some bad stuff but i think it be working good.......but sad part is i dont think this will really help against ops farming....may be just a little

If it doesn't help curb OP farming then the update is a failure. That was the whole point of this update. If it reduces it then at least it is a step in the right direction.

This is actually a good update. You all just look at it the wrong way...
Reading the replies i have noticed most of you always just mention "I" in your sentences. Meaning its a very subjective point of view. Look at it from a 3rd persons view. It restricts everyone, not just yourself. It promotes teamplay. Promotes interalliance communication. Forming a tem before a round will actually be more demanding. And a lot of mroe things this update brings by just looking at it even deeper. I mentioned only the things i noticed on 1st sight. This really balances the alliance members op count.


And actually, it does reduce op farming, by demotivating the farms becaus now they have a lot more work to do if they wanna procude ops for their farmer.

lol i love this update, now the stingy players have to place ops theirselves even from startup and not just abuse their teammates infrastructure. Bye bye workers haha

Personally I don't think this will fix your issue. If people want to farm bad enough they will. Whether it be with multis now just to get more Ops.

Can't we determine max ops by max power for that era, so as to circumvent the army loss loophole?

Isnt that just what Matt said?