SnotlinG,
Clone and Capitol don't sound near as good as gold/allies/item rewards. Especially if your armies aren't good ones or your Capitol already has decent walls (7 of 8 by default). I'd much rather have Allies than Cloned followers for example.
It would have been cool to get another Hero as a reward in a ruin, one that isn't level 1. It would also have been cool to get a big chunk of experience too instead of Capitol.
KGB
P.S. With the new community, did you guys fix the bug where when you resign you get a double loss (one from the resign and another and the end of the game itself). I didn't see it mentioned specifically but you are re-doing so much that it may have been part of that re-do.