Answering specifically to the does it harm or hurt the game? Several things I would say it helps. The bankers/wealthy being pro-active by finding others who have a small unit and give them gold without asking is good as it helps out players who are busy and can't ask or think it would be wrong of them to just ask for gold (helps out the lower class of the realm who also don't get as much info due to being the low knight I see as a good.) The war of Aurvandil-Madina I see as good since except for the Lurias and the new Teran Kabrinskia war there hadn't been much on all the continent.
