This is where you show that you don't play the same game as most. 2000 is more than enough to open 10 chests.
Of course you can do more. I do more too, but my answer was to "being the leech of my FS". I don't think any FS at least here on beta is throwing rocks at players doing 2000+ every week.
There are plenty of factions in this game, each with there own specialities and gamestyles which is fine.
When we talk about "most" those people dont even get 1000 points, even under the new system.
I think that most people that are here are actually interested in the tournaments, therefore they are not the 30-2000 points players.
If you are actually interested in the tournaments you often speak about people from lets say 4000-15.000 points.
there is a clear reason another 9 chests where added, those arent there for no reason, it's there to cater to a certain group of players.
As soon as any player has unlocked enough provinces and unlocked the 700% bonus any player with interest can be in this range if he/she wants to.
And as karvest said 10 chest is not that tournament inspired, if 2000-3000 points is good enough, you won't even feel in any way the issues that some have pointed out. which means most people do not understand or care about it.
People who are lets say try to reach 8000 or more points are very affected by these issues, they also care and are therefore more vocal about it.
For me personally I can't stand if the basics are wrong.
Think about it this way, as an architect you build a crappy foundation, your point would be, who cares most people only build a wooden shack on it and it doesnt matter.
But not everyone builds a wooden shack, some actually build a decent building on it and the foundation shifts a bit leading to some cracks, others will build something big and the building will collapse.
The basics of contruction is that you build a good foundation to build upon. the current system is a crappy foundation at best. it doesn't scale.
It's already showing cracks and the issue is the more the game develops the bigger the cracks become. what some already experience is something that will seep down as more chapters expansions and wonders are added, what is now an issue for the pro players, will soon enough become an issue for the above average player and eventually be an issue for every one.
This formula has good intentions, has it's pro's, but in the end it's build on quicksand.