Prestige > Level

if you upgrade till you can reach 100 speed then you stand a pretty good chance against any army. its all relative as to techs as well as attribute. a lvl 10/11 can have full speed so if you stay at this lvl you get a better prestige gain

You still can't hold as many troops if you stay at 10/11 compared to an 18. You can have a large army at 10, but it will probably be dwarfed by a higher level.

You still can't hold as many troops if you stay at 10/11 compared to an 18. You can have a large army at 10, but it will probably be dwarfed by a higher level.

yes true but a lvl 10/11 with 4 maxed out cities and full tech (might have 300k pp) could give a lvl 14/15 a good battle

This is not possible. Each level is allowed a certain number of oasis/subs.
To carry 20K cats, you would need a lot of oasis and subs. A level 3 cannot hold more than 2 oasis and 0 subs. Therefore, your statement cannot be correct.

It's a glitch that a lot of people like to use... they can be a lvl 3 and yet have a lvl 20 prestige ... they could wind up having 20k cats out and you wind up killing all the cats and like like 100 infantry and you would gain no prestige at all. I think this I very un fair. It's because of their lvl that protects them from loosing so much prestige much less any at all. It really sucks for people who actually use the task in the living system.... in a way it is cheating because they are using the haypi protection for glitching ... haypi please fix this . Thanks

I agree with the OP, although I would change the formula to split the difference between level and prestige. A really high prestige lvl 20 would dwarf a level 19 but is there that much difference?

You need to account for both.

My personal preference would to weight prestige, level and prestige on the battlefield. I would weight the prestige on the battlefield the heaviest with level and prestige creating a factor difference.

The goal would be to make people with larger armies have to send more equitable armies to maximize their prestige (or if you win against all odds you making more prestige than you would have normally).

The level/prestige would simply prorate the final prestige gained (after armies are factored in) and increase/reduce that amount based on some scale of handicaps that would realistically exist between certain levels. Including prestige would help normalize concious decisions not to level.