I disagree, playing W112 right now. There are many players who can normally snipe 100ms attack gaps that can not snipe .050 ms attack gaps. I know this from first hand experience specially when you are talking about the US server where most worlds are 200ms attack gap. Going from such a large span to almost nothing isn't going to easy for players who normally only play here on the US server. (however I am excited for the .050ms attack gap so not complaining they are keeping this setting)
10 tech system was out before archers were even put into the game. Although yes it was more common to see the 15 tech system instead. 10 tech system was out well before Archers. I have only ever seen Archers on a 10 tech world here on the US server. Although admitting I normally avoid archer worlds all together so I can not say for 100% fact about .net as I try to play worlds without Archers.
This can go both ways I agree, but larger tribes are normally what newer players flock too. So if you had to give them one setting that will ultimately help veteran players too. Why not give them bigger tribes. You can't even say smaller tribes are for veteran players so this can't be a "veteran player setting" because historically on the US server every veteran tribe has a family tribe. W45 family tribe, W47 family tribe, W48 the top two tribes both have family tribes. Dating all the way back to W35 they had a family tribe with a 30 member tribe limit in Dream Team. (number 1 tribe all the way till late game) So this setting just doesn't make sense on the US server. If everyone is going to use a family tribe you might as well keep tribe limits at least 20 if not higher.
There is actually a really long and explained post about flags and why they hurt newer players on .net. They 100% make a huge impact during start up. If you took a world with no pp but had flags. The difference between someone having a purple res flag and red res flag is huge. Even if they both went defense with no farming and scaving deactivated. Yes it does not make or break the account as there is a lot of things that have to be done right in order to have a successful start up with the settings I said above but with the same start up one will get to nobles almost 10% faster than the other.
Again overall love the settings and will be turning my focus to W49 as these settings are maybe once every 2-3 years. Just expressing that I disagree with how innogames go about their world settings. They do 10-15 straight worlds of crap settings and try to make up for it all in one world. Why not just make every world having a little bit of everything that players will like and newer players will enjoy too rather than making 15 worlds in a row for newer players then 1 world for veterans.