You either offensively cast and absolutely destroy kingdoms so they can’t retaliate or you do nothing. Otherwise you’re just giving out free pre/re. Sure you can coordinate and cast then enter CLI but that’s just going to be even castles or down for the caster and the person EQd still comes out ahead after the retal.
Fireball is a laugh. Oh darn my population is gone. It doesn’t cost anything to refill houses you already had. Get natural growth and speed it up.
The damage was because it was a series of EQ in a short period of time. Hypothetically 10 EQs that destroy 30% would reduce a kingdom to less than 3% of their starting value. As the caster, after a couple pre and all 5 retals being taken I ended up with 11 land 2 castles. The person that was EQd? Still had the land. Still had the castles, actually probably was up in total land and castles because of 5 retals.
And now with the system put in place offensively casting is pointless if you’re smaller trying to cast up. All that was done is protecting the delicate flower big kingdoms.
