Ya I was thinking about the progression of battle in my head before falling asleep last night and it currently goes. Just to be lazy I"m basing it on a 48, 24 hr concept but you have

MT/W/TF/S/SM/T/WT/F/SS/M/TW/T/FS/S/MT/W/TF/S

Like looking at it like this one could say, no one will want to gather on Monday/Tuesday cause the battle is on a Wednesday, but Thursday Friday is better since it's on a Saturday. With such a short duration to the battle, to gather items to reach the Top 20 just to be able to make use of it for 3-4hrs just isn't worth it. In the concept that say you did gather on MT to get Top 20 then on Wednesday you get home at 6 and maybe get a party going on at 7, then you only have 5hrs to make use of it, if you have til 12am to do it lol.

But of course it goes on a 50/25 concept so it can vary, sometime you might have 5hrs to make use of it, others maybe 8hrs and then on those sad occassion you only have 1hr to make use of it once you get out of work lol but if a person does have work the next day then the 50/25 hr concept doesn't work for them since they still have to limit how long they can actually do the hamlet for.

The standby phase is just way to long compared to the battle phase and the fact that you lose everything that's gained is just a real kick to the nads lol. It should be more dynamic. Rather then a straight up 50/25. Have the supplies determine how long the fight goes on for starting at a base of 24hrs.

So say the cap was 2mil for rank 2. For every 1mil gathered the forces can fight on for another 12hrs. So not only does 2mil grant you Rank 2 but it also increases the duration of the fight to a total of 48hrs (maybe a cap of 72hr aka 3 days of hamlet active). If it was done like this then I could accept it being brought back down to 0 after all is said and done but to have to have people grind like this constantly every 50hrs just to the current top rank is pretty messed up. It's like they didn't even take the time to setup some sort of system to base how much should be lost after a battle since it is pretty ridiculous to think that ALL the materials are used up once the fight is over.

Can only hope if enough people speak up about it there will be some sort of change made into the next update or we can also hope that the other 2 Hamlets will have different requirements aka party sizes for entry since as it stands now, why would anyone wanna do the other Hamlets when they are all set back to 0 anyway, you would only want to focus on one to make sure you can get the highest rank possible and increase your chances at getting loot. Also since people are pretty use to this hamlet, unless the other Hamlets have unique items to offer their's no point in learning something new when you already know how this one works. (aka only reason people would want to do other Hamlets would be for achievements)