Let me explain myself:
You said before launching the Era Worlds (E4) that your main concern was the rage quiting of players, the dissapointment and the use of alts that destroys the game and makes it impossible for someone who plays by the book.
And then:
1) You rased the HP penalty for higher ranks to attack lower ranks (as if alts were ever of high rank) and thus favoring the alts who can stay in the rank of Alderman and pillage / ransack / cap-sell-go for free while a Prince needs now 9 MILLION HP to raze one of them only to make them a slot to continue that free ride, making the Prince's privilege of razing pointless. Alts are never Princes
2) You put a cap in the FP a player can hold (punishing those who play constantly on a server and favoring those who pop up, sometimes with a mission- e.g. alts)
3) You increased insanely the cost in flags to build a war parish (punishing those who play constantly on a server and favoring alts who rarely care for parishes or hold them for long, they care for caping, pillaging, stealing and destroying) and this way you took away one more weapon the legit players had against alts (parish armies).
4) You made it so only Princes and above can raze with the insane costs i mentioned in (1) which means that, in reality, they can also only respond with pillaging or ransacking to lower ranks (possible alts) which in turn favors only the alts who have nothing to lose. A player who dedicated enough time, skills and Crowns to advance fast has many well built villages and produces enough to care not to lose them. So you are reducing the game in a pillaging/ransacking competition that has nothing to do with eliminating an enemy and conquering their land. You can check that in the Annihilator Leaderboard of E4 as you read this, were you can see that after almost 40 days and at least 2 wars going on, there have been only 46 razes-the first of that list has only 7! That also means that a higher rank is not as influencial in eliminating enemies and, just keeping a slot open to cap one village, is more important than razing- which in turn makes it more appealing to stay a lower rank, something alts usually do...
5) You made it so every House can have only 100 players (total of 2000 players in Houses) when there are at least 12000 active players on this map. That means there are thousands of players and many thousands of villages that do not have the protection of a House, and these are usually the new players, the inexperienced and those who dont buy Crowns and do not advance fast enough for the FGs and Marshalls to take them in. These are the easy targets of an alt account to build gold and honour and get materials in the beginning and these are the ones who will possibly quit in rage after being targeted by alts...
6) You rased the flag cost of a Church in a parish to 40(!!!!!) flags making it nearly impossimple for the legit and dedicated players and the thousands others who dont belong to a House who care to build a parish to aqcuire FP faster (even with the FP cap...), because, guess what, they are flag raided by all Houses.... Alts dont care about FP much. They dont even build Religious buildings. They dont mind much losing one village cause they will cap the next of the thousands “neutrals” for free and keep doing what they do.
7) (edit for something i forgot): You also increased insanely the flag cost for turrets, tunnelers and balistae which are DEFENSIVE mechanisms, depriving once more the legit players who build castles and max out villages from a way to defend better. Especially those who do not belong to a House, will never be able to build them since they are flag raided every day...
To sum this up with a hypothetical example: Me and my faction deside to build an army of alts, one per player, total of 20. We buy them a few tokens to avoid your radar and have them spawned in a specific area. We get them to the rank of Alderman to hold a second village and they start pillaging the thousands or neutrals (5) in the area who, being new , inexperienced and without Crowns probably think “* this” and quit in rage for the next of the thousands of online games. Then we start pillaging and ransacking the targeted Faction/House. Because of (1), even if they have a Prince he actually cant raze us. Even if he spends 9 million HP to raze one of our villages, we simply respawn or cap another of the (5) villages. Because of (3) they cant send parish armies on us and because of (2) and (6) they cant build or have enough FP to deal with us for long. We dont care for FP. Because of (7) their defenses are weaker than before. Because of (4) they can only pillage/ransack us but we dont care because our villages have only hovels, markets and apple orchards...We start sending 500 peasant armies to pillage / ransack the targeted Faction/House members and they can only respond in kind, but because of (4) we dont care
It is almost free for us and too expensive for them anyway After a while, more players quit cause they cant handle that and we get the area.
Alts won!