(01-19-2022, 02:34 PM)Yurk Embassy Wrote: It's not that simple. It's also about it being credible and not being an arbitrary rule saying "lol you can't attack because rules, wait x hours before actual battle." That wouldn't be the Hazeron spirit.
Not trying to be rude or mean or anything, but this made me sort of laugh considering the new "noncombatant" feature.
For the noncombatant feature I already have the French Empire threatening me with placing alts/ships/whatever on my homeworld so they can instantly attack me the moment they see me login. I guess it is more specific bullying targeted specially at me than what would normally happen against the average newbie player, but it still doesn't seem like a good system to rely on in the long run.
I would rather have the propaganda style siege suggested here than the noncombatant feature in the long run. It just seems like a better way of slowing down war and newbiestomping than totally disallowing attacks on people that are offline. Being attacked while you are offline sucks, but being online rarely makes that big a difference, especially when we are talking about newbiestomping. Timezones exist, so chances are that some enemies will never be online when you are.
If the attacker has to literally dedicate one or more ships to a week long siege, there is a cost for the attacker. If the defender can then somehow destroy the sieging ships before the siege is over, either with their own ships or the help of allies, the defender can win before they were ever in actual danger. A simple battle that doesn't require both parties to be online at the same time.