Under the current system, if the Knights are about to be destroyed, and say, the bishops hold the most real estate, it is in the rooks best interest to grab some fields from the bishops to try to become the dominant (winning)country and get the perk points. This discourages 2v1 country gangbanging which is a good thing no?
I am especially surprised to be hearing this suggestion from you cavemanj as you rooks were "in the bucket" for about a month solid a while back and you were almost constantly on the radio buffer berating the bishops and Knights for ganging up on the rooks(understandably so).
It's really a moot point until we get some perk planes, but I think the way it is set up now is the way to go.