hope they dont reset strat ticks i dont play enough to get those thousands back
If i remember correctly, Strat Tickets had been implemented orginially to represent cRPG activity, to have at all a marker which represents activity in comparison to multiaccounting which may not have those advantages. So while i see your point, if you would be a single player with not less cRPG playtime or a faction with lots of players but the average activity being low, resulting then for the both of them to stagnate in troop numbers. As within Mercenary faction overall you shouldnt have a problem from what i have seen on the servers as there are lots of new and active mercs.
As i have atm 20801 tickets, where i started strat 4 with 8000 tickets. I would even go so far to make it even more difficult to get them as there was never once a time in strat 4 when i ran out of tickets.
Or to implement a second way to spend them, so that scarcity would lead to actual balancing effects.