http://plarium.com/forum/en/stormfall-age-of-war/game-discussion/topics/why-are-we-penalized-for-having-overwhelming-defensive-troops-/1/#133903/
for continued discussion with djmoody:
if you go to this thread and go to tony hobson's second post, they show a zero loss attacker with 108 points and a defender with 21 points.
now in the actual factual manifestation of what happened the defender got 21 points without killing any troops. are you stating that the points were redistributed from the offense's points. as part of the shared points you talked about. that on one end of the rainbow defense shares offense points for getting wiped out. and that on the other end of the rainbow a defense gets no points for wiping out an attacker. and that the mystical esoteric formula evens out at the 1/1 kdr point?
if not, then the points would have to come from the defense's losses. i know most people don't believe that to be the case.
but a hypothetical based on assumption from the various things i have read and experienced, this is just a hypothetical for hypothetical's sake: could the mystical magical formula be that defense gets points for losing troops and offense gets points for destroying troops. then as a second calculation the troops destroyed by the defense have a value and the troops lost by the attacker have a value. {yes they are the same troops, however, possibly separate values added together and then split between the 2 sides.
these are just ideas based on assumption.
edit: if i remember correctly, back when i started the game, a neighbor and i would send dragons to kill 40 archers on each others sieges between our 2 castles. with 3 dragons we would kill 37 archers. this gave us 17 pvp points on offense and 3 pvp points on defense. however if we sent 4 dragons, the result was zero points on defense. so the defense pvp points would come not from the lost troops, but for the remaining troops. thus gaining points without killing any troops. so the defender in hobson's post, most likely got points for the remaining troops, not the lost troops.
in any case i have received 2 pvp points by sending 2m power and killing 10 arches. i also in pirates killed 2 troops the equivaent of wyverns with 300k power on defense and received zero points.
this only matters as far as pvp tournaments are concerned, otherwise, you are just glad to dominate.
and whatever the actual mechanic: the design seems to be if you want pvp points the best efficiency is supposedly a 1/1 kdr and and the more epic {more troops you lose the better}. idk if that suggests a higher bonus for higher losses or not.
i'll give this part of my post a rest. as i stated initially the new pvp rewards don't interest me any how, and i will no longer build in order to go toe to toe with a coin player thanks to the 50/50 boost. and defense still seems to be at a disadvantage, unfortunately defense is the stance i take.