Feel free to offer a suitable alternative within 2 days
I can't see one, tbh
Actually with a completely new way of making gold and new elements limiting production, the absolute best solution would be a complete wipe. Neutral village battles will actually be a challenge this time around and therefore more enjoyable. The giant mega-alliances would dissolve and with such significant changes it would completely shift the dynamic of the game giving more power to smaller clans. I really think this scenario fits for a full wipe.
I really enjoyed this round, but this is an alpha and such a major change would actually make it more enjoyable to do a full wipe as already taken fiefs would not skew balance, because fiefs like castles that help with production wont be owned en masse by some and not at all by others and would become much more difficult to take under the new scenario. It would be a balanced solution and I personally would find it very interesting seeing how such new features work in early game and how they need to be tweaked in such a situation, as this is the purpose - to test new features and this could likely need some tweaking based on the early game development. Overall, the entire game dynamic has shifted and become an essentially new concept with strategy so all stages of the game need to be tested, not just when all villages are taken and a 1/3rd of the castles. No one that I know would not keep playing after a wipe as strategus is too much fun and a more difficult early game will actually be really enjoyable.
Not sure if changes will be balanced for both early and late stage game and a full wipe would be a great opportunity to test this. To be honest as much funa s I was having with all these battles it was already gettign a little stale with the current gold/troops dynamic as it turns out from waht we heard that the UIF still exists and the entire other side of the map had to ally to counter it and it was really leading nowhere. Kind of curious if people will really be so fixed that they will carry alliances over from 2 strategus ago? Would probably make it more of a free-for-all with a full wipe where maybe we can get rid of some of the fixed territorial claims ideas leftover from the original strategus and new dynamic diplomatic relations will be formed.
so essentially - FULL WIPE.