Walling is fine, in fact literally no change at all has been made to walling since The Forgotten, when it was nerfed from AoC times.
Walls prevents you from effectively expanding later on, specially on Castle Age, since you are diverting resources/attention into enclosing yourself. Scouts were easily able to punish this by just controlling your unwalled space and preventing you from expanding, forcing you to resort on Spears and so on. Due to pathing issues, now a couple Archers or even Villagers themselves can easily fend off Scouts, so you can both wall and keep your space all right and expand later on unmolested.
Since Scouts sucks, now drushing can go relatively unmolested until you can mass Archers, which takes a while, and the Archers will be busy fending off the drush first, so Archer Rushing is harder as well. Though if drushing doesn't happens then Archers can still punish some wood lines and the like depending of the map.
Last patch improved this, but meta shifts takes time and... it seemed to benefit more Knights than Scouts anyway, so that is another incentive to fast castle.
Walls prevents you from effectively expanding later on, specially on Castle Age, since you are diverting resources/attention into enclosing yourself. Scouts were easily able to punish this by just controlling your unwalled space and preventing you from expanding, forcing you to resort on Spears and so on. Due to pathing issues, now a couple Archers or even Villagers themselves can easily fend off Scouts, so you can both wall and keep your space all right and expand later on unmolested.
Since Scouts sucks, now drushing can go relatively unmolested until you can mass Archers, which takes a while, and the Archers will be busy fending off the drush first, so Archer Rushing is harder as well. Though if drushing doesn't happens then Archers can still punish some wood lines and the like depending of the map.
Last patch improved this, but meta shifts takes time and... it seemed to benefit more Knights than Scouts anyway, so that is another incentive to fast castle.
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