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[Pinky]

No reason not to have them balanced imo. The bonuses are cool but most of the time aren't really that important, so it always winds up with everyone picking the big team because being on the little team and getting dozens of rape PMs every hour is annoying and not fun.

See, I figured that people were playing by the old set of rules.

In previous rounds, you had to buy large piles of relatively cheap items and have equally large piles of troops to make use of it all. But, in this round high troop numbers aren't necessary. Smaller amounts of more expensive/stronger items mean that you can have a few dozen troops and still not lose much, if any, of your main battle power. Troops also carry back 4gold each from a successful raid, so you don't need large numbers of troops to make a good raid either. Unless you're actually being reduced to less than ten troops on a regular basis, which is fairly difficult this round, joining a small team and being attacked a lot really doesn't matter.