@alkrim. Estoc edge spell gives a bonus in plunder and EB drops. It can be very helpful in quick growth.
Neither. Or both. It's a "glass half empty" scenario. At the moment this seems to be a systematic easing up of their responsibilities to free the support team up to work on more important ****. That's my take on it either way.
I doubt game loyalty would mean anything to the developers. I mean, if I was part of a company, and I had my own job, 24/7, coding, programming, testing, fixing glitches, applying patches, developing new, more efficient lines of coding, I would just care for the game to work. :lol: