...and this happens all the time the way he makes it sound like?
Yes it did happen
all the time (before they changed how hood merges happen), perhaps not to every neighborhood on every world. But it happenend all the time in many hoods on many worlds. I know that it was quite common on Noarsil, since I knew many players in such a lopsided hood. I myself saw Tutorial players added to my hood at least 10 different weeks last year, and that doesn't begin to speak to hoods that had players from as many as 7 different ages in the same hood.
Why would any player want to plunder a Bronze Aged player when they are in FE or AFE? the tower points that could be scored would be paltry as would any resource that might be available to plunder.
Then on top of this, I know that the lifeblood of any online game is that new players will try it out and stick with playing it. Tossing a brand new player, who is just completing the Tutorial Quests, into a hood with players ranging from AFE on down is just going to discourage that player from sticking with the game. It made no sense at all how some neighborhoods got mashed together before the changes.
