Well if China has this change then i guess we have no choice but to follow. Does anyone have any clue if this is true?

Like i posted before in another thread, this change is being made for small or dead servers with population issues.

In my opinion, in these small servers, most groups are farming group coins by cooperating and avoiding fights in GNW. This is because the dominant group usually has all or most of the top 5 / 10 players, therefore the weaker group can't compete. The weaker group is resigned to losing GNW but they can still get their group coins by winning their field. An example of cooperation would be the dominant group takes fields on the top row (10, 8, 7) and the weaker group can take the fields on the bottom row.

This cooperation is definitely something oasis is keen to eliminate. It's definitely taking the fun out of the game but you can't blame the players for "gaming the system" to maximize rewards.

What I don't understand is why isn't the approach to fix the root problem of server population instead? After this change, there's no difference as the dominant group will just take 10 and 8 while weak group takes 7.

All in all, this change is just another needless slap in the players face... sigh...