Hi Celphi. exploring past 3k land, and at most 4k land is a bad idea. Can get that same land with attacks, and have turns left over to build it. All those turns, I'll be happily building CSes and saving even more turns to grab even more. Batch exploring is also weakened now because your production is proportional to your population size divided by max population size, and the sudden increase in your land will cut production. If you explore from say 4k to 6k, it is also inefficient to build those 2k acres all at the build-cost of 6k acres. instead of a gradual price increase of.

Dicts penalty is mainly the BPT one, and batch exploring is the worst way to go, because you want to build A LOT of CS with your turns, not spend them exploring. Dict even gets grabbing bonus of ghost acres to help with this.

While there are certainly people that have finished top 10 with all-explorers, they only did so with very favourable market conditions, and this is an express-server only thing, because Batch Exploring is "stronger" on this server due to being able to hold up to 360 turns.