balance ? as Chumley said above, all the higher era players stayed in 1 guild for over a year so nobody could actually attack AA map, because of the very high era troops that where unbeatable (pay2own)
then, as Chumley partly said above, all those cities left the guild, and splitted to 5-6-7 others (including those he call enemies) with result, to "split" the maps, to 3-4 guilds but again, no fighting at all, 2-3 guilds play GvG hugs, if you load them a 8/8 sector, they'd rather msg you to find another solution than do a "battle royale"
who has the troops for so after all, arcs are not compatible with fighting.
Korch on the other hand, is a how long ? world, on 1000s attack and defence, it's not much a matter of tactic anymore.
when i started playing GvG on Sinerania, i had something like 150 attack and defence, everyone else is waiting for 10k's of troops , millions of goods, and 1000% attack to get involved.
Sinerania is not boring world, it still have maybe a year of true fun, boring is the "you have to level an arc and play like this" that the low skilled but high ranked guilds establish.
as for GBG, i went in a couple of those top guilds, some of them can do 4h swaps, though their treasuries with Arcs ain't still that strong, but ok, Chateau gives less profit per spot on the 130lvl Arcs, who cares for guilds and honor, all they care is Forge Points :'D
sinerania from another point of view :
SF Thor's and AVC took out Last Stand from #1, the rest guilds where just watching, others claiming "they are 4, be scared of them" others trying to keep neutral stance and get the benefits of not fighting (how fun can be a politicians life ?
) but we triggered some spark to light things up for the winter.
what 4 and 24, when they see 8/8 DA sectors with ARMIES , they remember their real life and log out
(similar to "oh not again traps plz")
let's see how far your arcs will get you and how many "agreements" you need to bring the game where you can actually play it, how many newbies those tyrants will enforce to play as farmers to be able to say "we are the best" , will be fun to see !!
2-3 months now, i never missed a single recalc, though my 1 fighter - 13 log once in 3 days farmers, are ranked #14 with 700 LP curently, already have ebargo from the top10, nobody buys me goods, and also nobody supports us with fighters. Status Trio ain't fools, but do they know math ?
Sinerania will be interesting because no matter the spenders they all claim, needs strategy because goods and troops are fewer.
Soon, ill be in Future Era, will start an 100Forge Points per Arc set campain to motivate more players come and play, but i doubt they will offer anything in competition means...
anyways, let's see !