Reasons for “whining”, recapped:
- Lack of decorative thralls means some PVE people will have builds that will suddenly have to be depopulated.
- Some people have concerns about offline purges. Yes, they do happen, I’ve seen one happen this weekend. No, new thralls won’t necessarily be able to cover all the approaches in a multi-pronged wave.
- Cap formula adds a strong disincentive to joining a clan (or having an already established clan).
- No way to see how many thralls you have and where they are means it’s easier to overlook glitched thralls or thralls from decayed clanmates’ bases.
- Completely random nature of culling logic means that if you ever exceed the cap for any reason (e.g. someone left your clan while you were offline), the game will play Russian Roulette. Combined with the new leveling system, it means you might keep your camel while your lvl 20 über-archer dies.
- Extremely rare thralls will become useless because they’re not retroactively included in the leveling system. Either you have to kill them off and lose them forever, or you have to grant them one of the precious few slots in your follower cap.
If anyone can remember something I missed, let me know.
Also, if anyone wants to actually discuss these things, as opposed to calling me names or just dismissing it without offering any arguments, I’ll be happy to hear your arguments 