Support but just a few thoughts...while people will change their banners to comply, what's to stop players from farming you if you hire their ally? While 95% of banners are all bark and no bite (I know because I ignore most banners except for real osw and ee and get into my fair share of skirmishes over it), it tends to be the lb that do have the bite and, coincidentally, have the gold to back up their bites. To the old timers, remember when banners didn't exist, and you only knew who was going to farm you over a hire from trial and error? Would this be returning us to that era? What are YAFI's thoughts on this?
What's going to be even more interesting is to see what happens when pvp is introduced. If people are uptight about their allies now, I can only imagine what it is going to be like when pvp is incentivized. I've always been a big advocate of free market ~ ranked 62 on the ally leaderboard even though I am not a spender in this game attests to how it is possible to play the game without spending money AND allowing ally hires is very profitable. However, I can foresee people being very protective of ally hires when the update drops......