Defend the village is fun, but xp and gold is only 1/3 which translate to only 1.66x when it's 5x. Now 5x isn't easy, even when we have it, the engineers or higher tiers will destroy us.
So remove upkeep or we only going to lose $$ wearing average gears. Sounds fair? Plus the damn bots swarm and spam, no way to defend when it happens, even if you have shield it'll break eventually, 2h lol good luck. It'll a nice change to wear some plate and fight bots instead of each other.