Poll Started (War Level Choice)

I appreciate the ongoing dialogue here, and think some changes you're making will indeed help the war game improve, which is my primary goal with the positions I take in this discussion.

Respectfully though, you didn't answer my question. Why would you limit players being able to stay at lower war levels? Players need practice, want to be able to test tactics and weapons out, and want flexibility. Everyone in this thread who has talked about this concept agrees that they'd prefer the OPTION to stay at lower levels, and these are some of the players who've actually gone through war levels and won wars.

I understand you believe players are incentivized to go to higher war levels, but if they were, more would. Despite these incentives, you have just three players on your busiest planet (WG) who've ever progressed beyond war level 3. Three.

On Fearless Blue, your war world, you start at war level 3 (a

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Then there is the "need" for a flexible empire, so you can conquer a country far away, release it later and do it again.
This enables you to fight a real war at a large distance with a C3 country you conquered as a base.
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This is not a flexible system. If you achieve high war levels, you no longer can easily achieve this. It becomes extremely expensive and time consuming. This exact reason is why players are asking about having the option to fight lower level c3s. You're highlighting what we're asking for here, though it seems you're misunderstanding how flexible your system is.

What I said is that you will be able to increase the size of your empire to 5 countries, fighting on at level 3.

Once you have five, you can reduce the empire to 4 and fight again at wl3.

this is giving you the option of fighting at war level 3 for ever and the flexibility of where you want to have your country.

If you want to have 10 countries in the empire, it has a higher complexity level, you can do the same, have country 6-10 while fighting at wl 4.
then continue at war level 4, while reducing the empire size to 9 and having the flexibility to conquer countries for strategic reasons.

I said in a previous post that I do not see the need for trivial wars for experienced players.

why would you E.O, fight trivial wars at WL3. you are more than experienced enough to fight them at WL4, or 5 or higher.

Building a very large empire by fighting many wars at WL3 does not sound logical to us here.