[FaeLenx]

It's definitely one of those problems that comes out when you try to make some sort of fair war rules for a game like this. All of the simplest solutions present complicated problems like the old BYOND "Me participating somehow anomalously ruined my entire nation's war effort" or the "One guy can technically beat everyone in a 1v1 so he's quite literally unkillable." There are a few contradictions when it comes to 'fair.'

Participation should be rewarded but having more people shouldn't be overpowering.

Skill in combat should matter but being weak shouldn't hinder the overall war effort.

There should be a lot to do but one person shouldn't be 90% of a group's war effort by doing a lot of stuff.

The feedback I got from the wargames made it clear that the community felt exactly 2 ways about every issue and the simplest seeming problems don't have simple solutions that don't just cause another problem down the line. Right now, I'm just convinced that the only real solution is to do a best of 3-5-7 etc with pre-determined teams and some rules about limiting repeat participation to make sure as many people as possible get a chance to be in a fight that matters. You can have some area with little battling NPCs swinging swords like in the finale event for the Black Falcons with some encouragement for PCs to go there to find a healthy skirmish, but trying to scorekeep an entire war has a lot of problems.