Conquest of Solar Systems

[Deantwo]

Attacking someone who's not even there isn't fair by any standard; it breaks immersion in itself.

But that is an impossibility. While we live in the real world where timezones and daily routines keeps us from being online at the same time.

Which is why I think we are both suggesting a system that would let the defender destroy the attacker's sieging ship while they are offline.

Maybe even limiting it to one per star system, instead of the worlds themselves, but that would be weird, hardly convincing in terms of Lore, and in that case, systems filled with cities could still be taken more quickly than it'd take for a player sleeping at 1am to wake up and log in.

To hell with lore reasons. We barely have lore reasons for anything in Hazeron.

But this is the basis for this entire thread, that sieges should be against a whole solar system at a time, because you can't think of the worlds in a solar system as independent. Very few players make all their worlds completely self-sufficient, so if one world is captured or destroyed the rest of the worlds will fall into ruin one way or the other over time.

Having a solar system wide shield generator is probably the best way of thinking about it. Assuming we don't just want this to be a building-less feature, since having a physical building isn't really required and it would just be yet another thing that a newbie can forget to do.

Also, calling it a shield generator also seems to suggest that an attacker have to maintain fire on the shield for prolonged period of time. This seems pretty unnecessary, especially if the weapon's strength doesn't matter. Veteran players will just start designing all their warships with an additional smallest possible energy weapon and only use that against the shield until it drops, then switch to their powerful weapons.