Don't you guys remember about ghost cities like 30 days into the server? Where's the technicals in all this? We are playing brute offense and it is getting players destroyed. I learned my own lesson.
Remove favor altogether and balance the system? Then golders don't have such a huge advantage. Tough to do wonders. Domination is easy - create more 175 anchors lol. It's brutal out there.
Start posting the problems you spot so we can try and help them fix this. It's a big mess right now, I can see city groups are not working right either but I'm too tired to look into it.