I want to tell you guys how I look at it. I don't want to complain but to tell you my opinion.
They got rid of force close, so defense means something again. Great, that's definitely an improvement. However, I believe that Nexon should have overhauled the medal system before coming out with this update.
I think loosing 39 medals versus gaining 1 medal is too unbalanced and is going to felt by a lot of players after this update, me including. It's hard to gain medals already when 95% of the opponents are only worth 1 medal. One crash and you lost 39 makes it even worse.
A few months ago I had a huge issue with crashes as did a lot of other people. About every second attack would crash. Fortunately, Nexon has resolved this mostly and it doesn't happen very often (which I thank them), but it still does happen. So would this crash issue happen again as it did before it would mean under the current system about 3 crashes per hour of play which at -39 each would translate to about -100 per hour of play. With 1 hour of play per day that would mean -700 medals in a week. 700 medals is several months of work for me at 1 medal per attack. So my question is do you really believe that it is fair to lose 700 medals in a week to something that we don't have control over??? The only other choice we have is to not play and wait till the issue has been fixed which could take months (as is the case with the donate disappearing in chat ) effectively stopping our progress or take the hit and let months of work slide down the drain. Do you really think that is fair?
Medals are an integral part of this game. Some people care about them more and some less. But I believe this update treats higher level players unfairly. I personally went up in medals because of the league bonuses and for my alliance. But I'm not very high only at 2900+. A lot more players are higher than me.
I know some of you will say sucks to be you and we shouldn't care about the top 1%. But what I say to those people is show some mutual respect to other players that spend a lot of time and effort to get as far as they did and I know some spent a lot of money to get as far as they did, ultimately supporting Nexon and this game which affects all of us in some way or other.
Maybe once we get a big crash issue again with every second attack crashing you guys might understand my opinion.
I just hope Nexon reconsiders their current medal system and rehauls it to balance it out.