(04-18-2022, 01:41 PM)Grecanis Wrote: It's very simple, you engage in hostilities then you are no longer protected while offline from those you have attacked. By the same token, if you take advantage of your attackers lack of protection and attack while they are not online and cannot respond then you lose your protection from them as well.
I mean if it is limited to like a 24 hour loss of offline protection against empires you have attacked, I guess it could fix part of the issue at hand.
But there are still a lot of issues this wouldn't stop, and it would totally invalidate the whole "defenses can fire while under offline protection" thing that is currently the only thing that can counter ships left in orbit over a city that is under offline protection.
And this would do nothing to stop the abuse of alt empires used to hold onto captured cities so they can't be re-captured as mentioned in the opening post.