Changes to the Clan Wars rules

FaustianQ, on Aug 30 2012 - 18:52, said: Map not dynamic enough? I highly beg to differ, sicne over the last 3 months the entire UC map has changed significantly. All the new rules do is penalize strong clans and reward small, weak clans with being able to chip spam/swarm the bigger more capable clan into submission. All that will happen is that larger clans will learn to abuse your new rules even more, and become even more tightly night to protect what little gold they earn to barely cover UC expenses for ammo and consumables. The more you make clans vulnerable, the more likely they are to band together to protect each other.
The whole issue in the first place is that there is something to farm (gold), but also nothing in turn to make territory holding worth it (without gold). No point in participating in community warfare if there is no gain to be made from what is essentially almost a job. Why play for pitiful amounts of gold that needs to split amongst the active playerbase when winning a tourney or even coming in 8th is more profitable and less stressful and less time consuming.
Further, with the way looting and multiple defenses stack, it makes way more sense just to swarm and burn territory to the ground to get more gold out of it. Without incentives to stay and actually be territory holders, all you are encouraging the best clans on the server to do is to let weak ineffectual clans hold land then sack their territory for gold. There is basically no incentive to hold land now.