Talk:Expansion Permit/@comment-37983206-20181230110757/@comment-25205196-20181231174059

@AlexPerrin1: Supercell has always favored high derby participation, either by making derbies way easier for big neighborhoods or buy giving more/exclusive rewards to hoods in higher leagues or hoods in the top 3. It encourages players to keep playing and to play every day. Some high-level players only do derbies or some events because they no longer have any new stuff to unlock.

They're actually taking steps to make the derby a bit fairer what with reworking thresholds and giving some rewards in the last threshold for every league but I agree that's it's not fair to make it so hard to get permits if you don't do derbies or aren't in a very active/higher league hood. That being said that's a choice they've always made and, as Alpha justly said, special expansion areas are mostly cosmetic additions. You don't need them to play and progress normally. I can only second his suggestion too: if you'd like to unlock the special areas you need to move to a more active hood. That's how the game works now.