04-18-2022, 04:55 PM
You could probably close the surrender gap to some extent by saying you cannot surrender cities while an active war is ongoing.
Its counterintuitive but you could imagine the following:
1. City is taken
2. City surrendered to offline empire
3. War is declared on offline empire
4. 24 hours later the protection lapses and the city can be taken
Surrendering cities could then be done as part of the peace process if needed (this has never actually happened that I know of, surrendering is afaik pretty much exclusively used to move cities between empires willingly) and if the losing side doesn't hand over what was agreed just re-declare war and take stuff.
Its counterintuitive but you could imagine the following:
1. City is taken
2. City surrendered to offline empire
3. War is declared on offline empire
4. 24 hours later the protection lapses and the city can be taken
Surrendering cities could then be done as part of the peace process if needed (this has never actually happened that I know of, surrendering is afaik pretty much exclusively used to move cities between empires willingly) and if the losing side doesn't hand over what was agreed just re-declare war and take stuff.