I dont know if the rest of you run into this. Obviously my stats suck.. Too many games, more deaths than kills, no wins. What I run into is that I work and have to sleep obviously. I work 4-10 hours shifts and obviously need to sleep. So I can get a good run going then come back to find myself essentially detroyed with half my territory gone. How would people think if there was an AFK option that protected you from attack for a set period of time while you were away at work or something likke that. I mean asouple of hours is my fault but when I CANNOT play for a 10-12 hour period it really sucks to come back to devestation.
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It feels like something like that could be exploited, so I'm not in favor. There's a certain skill to knowing how to position yourself to protect your units and your land while offline. Most people do this before sleeping; you'll just have to do it before work too.
not to be brutal but that is the game
I also study a lot but usually check every 3-4 hours, more if I am In a tough battle
I design my overnight orders specifically to keep ploughing ahead without intervention from me. It's backfired a couple of times but overall it's worked quite well. My modus operandi is giving out vast strings of orders to attack province after province, with at least three armies passing through at least one, the theory being that if I don't run into an enemy the army will keep moving for at least 24 hours (often up to five days if I'm trying to take a lot of islands) without my having to do a thing. In practice the routes keep getting reconfigured to match current events, because letting everything run on autopilot when I'm in a position to adapt has rarely ended well.
I also do have a brief check-in window after I wake up but before I leave the house for the day, so I have time to react to an overnight attack.
Auto pause for a certain amount of time in every 24hr cycle was proposed a while back. Didn't really got support.
Still think it's a gem of an idea.
My main problem with this is that it would be no fun for anyone who's in a game where everyone else is in an incompatible time zone, since that would limit them to attacking AIs unless they're willing to stay up ridiculously late to play.
(Totally not referring to myself here. I stay up ridiculously late to play anyway.)
Edit: This person has an idea that could potentially solve the 'offline' problem without the drawbacks I just mentioned, although they're pretty cynical in regards to the probability that it will actually be implemented.
They could just add a popup that would show a game's specific time arrangement if you try to enter it, similar to the one that appears in private matches where you have to pay to enter.
That would severely limit the number of games people could play. I already have to camp out the 'new games' page for ages to enter any HWW if I want a decent country to play as, and limiting myself to specific time zones in order to be able to attack human players would make it too restrictive.
The pain when you are forced to play as Spain or Turkey because almost every major power was taken in the first 5 seconds and you don’t feel like doing the 5000th Japan or Italy play through:
That's when you just back out and choose a different game
No, i strongly disagree since the strategies around your opponent time-zones is rooted into the game
in the other hand, i suggest games that starts and ends in couple of hours ... something like the x144 speed game (you can check it on youtube) ... very exciting idea and suits many people
also i suggest not to get involved in x2, x4, x10 games since it leads to highly devastated outcome at night yk
As a proud member of the NSO (No Sleep Organization), I strongly object to the idea of punishing us for your inactivity, as it goes against the essence of our group.
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