1) Oh boy. You already conveniently changed the score formula almost at the exact same time Arrgh was at the peak of raiding with their brilliant lotsa cities, low infra strategy.
2) Stop pandering to new players. We were all new players at one point, and stuck around regardless of graphics, which ironically is one of the big things that makes your game so much more unique than most other empire fight-build games.
3) Your own new mechanic is already broken, as many others here have explained. Adding major mechanical changes just to make new players feel good and affect emotions is absolutely ridiculous.
4) Bigger picture? I thought the picture was how good the game was? But then again I never thought we'd be establishing safe spaces for new players on the war display page, so who knows?