(04-18-2022, 01:23 AM)Xantheose Wrote: An online vassal should remove the protection as if it were an empire's avatar.
Declaring an empire your overlord doesn't require confirmation, so in this event you would just make a new alt empire and make it a vassal to your enemy, then you can disable their offline protection by logging in on that alt. So this would be a horrible idea with the current vassal/ally system.
(04-18-2022, 03:12 AM)Grecanis Wrote: IMO, If war has been officially declared and both sides have engaged, then any protections should cease. Especially for the side that made the declaration.
Since "war" is not an actual thing in Hazeron, it is hard to say when two empires are at war. The idea of formal war declaration and having it affect some form of protection was considered in the past, but on closer inspection it seems to have all the same issues as right now because empires themselves are intangible and easily replaced.
See: (Idea thread) Formal War Declaration
I abandoned the idea of a formal war declaration system in favor of the idea of declaring war on a location instead of an intangible empire. We have been discussing that idea in another thread.
Here: (Idea thread) Conquest of Solar Systems