Board Thread:Game Discussions/@comment-24829740-20140819170154/@comment-25055391-20140821153521

Magefireballs wrote: Agree with Bullseyed on this one. The reason these wars costs so much is because of stripping. Without stripping entirely, the fights would take longer (fewer gems) and only people that could win consistently would gem (no lowbies or people with bad gear). You'd probably reduce the total # of gems needed by 50-75% needed to place in T10. It's the same reason it takes less gems to win the Raids.

No. Just no.

Sorry but you are wrong here. The stripping LOWERS the price for the reasons I JUST STATED. The timing factor may have a very small effect, but lets be real it's still not even CLOSE to how long it takes for a Raid Battle, so that point is irrelevant. The fact is, with stripping you get more wins, less losses, and less gems needed. You have the ABILITY to CHOOSE to spend more gems if you want, but to hit minimum's, it makes it cheaper. There is no debate to that fact.

Now with the new scoring system, we will see. I am not a "fan" of stripping, but deem it necessary. I hope they did do something to counter it.