Dear Halberd,
A lot of old players who play this game for years have already made clear that what is happening in World 2 is unfair.
Trying to make both worlds 'equal' is never going to work and certainly not the way it is done now.
Players who invested HUGE amounts of money on world 2 (which was NOT possible on world 1 before) receive an enormous advantage over players in world 1.
While the worlds will be 'equally' old when they merge, the players from world 1 will be punished.
1) The few players who spend huge amounts of money in the beginning of world 2 only really benefit from the extra's the world has been assigned (x2 troops, resources, ...)
2) There is no real competition in this world, so these players can just continu to abuse their benefits
3) There wasn't the same amount of knowledge/understanding when world 1 started. This means that although the worlds might be equally old, the players on world 2 had an advantage over world 1.
As I have already said before the 'extra benefits' of world 2 should be limited until a certain point.
The biggest (strongest in militairy strength) players in world 2 are already entering the top 20 of world 1. Now the benefits from world 2 will go on for another year, what will we end up with then?
The few lucky players from world 2 become the new biggest players?
All in all, a limitation to these benefits at a certain amount of militairy strength (for example at the average of the top 50 in world 1) seems more fair than what is happening now...