Originally
posted by
Slagpit:
I'm in favor of trying to solve the problem of getting woken up in the middle of the night in order to stonewall. Here's what one implementation would look like:
* Players would specify up to an 8 hour window in their game profiles during which the attacks their countries can receive are restricted on clan servers that allow for PvP with FFA excluded. I'm just going to call this "sleep hours".
* A country inherits the profile setting for sleep hours upon creation. In other words, changing their sleep hours in their game profile won't change it for any active countries.
* A player cannot login or perform any action with their country during sleep hours except on the final day of the reset. Countries still gain turns normally and can perform automated market activity.
* Countries during sleep hours cannot be subject to special attacks. They could still be landgrabbed or be the victim of harmful spy ops.
* Countries would appear to be on vacation during sleep hours. This is the only way that I can think of to communicate the new change to third party sites via feeds. As a result, we would remove the current vacation system (currently zero countries are using it).
* Flavor text might be "Your generals refuse to perform cowardly special attacks against a nation whose people are sleeping!"
The problems that come to mind are:
1) War is already difficult between clans that have few members. This would restrict the number of targets available during war chats. I suspect that this would be especially bad for warrers who live in Asian time zones. Would they be able to meaningfully participate in wars?
2) A player couldn't choose to login into the game during an important event or an emergency, such as participating in an FS or responding to a suicider.
Some questions as per below:
1) How frequent will you allow players to change their 8 hours of sleep time? Allow to change it anytime daily?
2) Let say war is on going and my clan needs my helps to finish off a low pops country asap. I happened to be still awake and want to help but my 8 hours of sleep time is activated. Is it possible for me to void it and hit directly?
3) Is there any way for me to track the timeframe of the 8 hours of sleep time for each country? Or I have to do it manually by checking whether the country is in vacation mode on every 1 hour gap?
