First of all I would like to say few words :) ... We, people of China ( mostly balcanian scrubs ) didnt want to play for our native countries so while we were in beta, we were for a country that has easy resources and good global position, we found it, it was China, so we all agreed that we will play in China when game officialy starts. Game started we organised our country fast, our economy, got our bonuses fast, found dominating alliance, for some time dominated, than had some troubles, disbanded alliance, got us almost wiped, than came back again... mainly i want to say that we had a lot of fun and we worked a lot ( some people more, some less, but we worked ). Second, I like this update and I am really fond of it, I have nothing against it.



And now to point of my article, which is reworking of DS because of this new update.

I will give you fun fact about DSs, when i was CP of China in month of June, DSs were being sold for 90-110g and now I can bet that you can find DS Q5 for 50g ( +/- 10g ).

From my examples I think most of community will agree with me, that DSs need reworking. Now, first example
                                            

As you can see from this picture spain has 21 ( I counted 1 region in austria which I later seen that is austrian ) non core regions, that means spaniards will in 15 days have 31.5% less damage with each hit. If you ask me that is a lot, but admins point is there, penalty for occupying regions. So if you still dont get it, if you have hit of 100k with this debuff you will make only 68.5k damage. Big debuff, but lets add there DS Q5 against spain, that means that if spain attacks DS Q5 they will have 56.5% damage debuff, which means with hit of 100k they will make only 43.5k DMG. You can see some guys with under 1k strength do more damage.





Here you can see that Croatia has 23 non core regions, that means that Croatia has 34.5% debuff on their damage.That means that they will do on 100k hit only 65.5k damage, if we add DS Q5 debuff here ( -25% ) that is only 40.5k damage with each hit. If you are really really bad in math you can see that this is very low damage.



My suggestion is that you change the way DSs work. My idea is you that you remove that % damage it lowers and that instead of that you make DS eating portion of damage ( 2M, 10M, 100M how ever you decide ), that way some countries like Spain, Slovenia, Croatia, Turkey, Georgia etc. wouldnt have so much damage reduction.