account sitting and war

Sitting an account actually slows you down and it is most likely that if you do have long term sat accounts like me, you would not have the time to opperate them in times of war.

Aside from that issue, you seem to feel that people use such accounts for some exploitative reason, I for one do not.  At times when my accounts are not in the same alliance I would not even defend one that was being seiged by another.  Personnaly I view illy as a role playing game as much as a war game and I play each of my accounts relatively seperately.

a dimension that account sitting adds to the war game is that so call neutral alliance members can easily account sit a warring alliance member, this adds 24/7 coverage of an account and is often used by several groups in this game..the good thing about this form of account sitting is that many members of illyriad community can gain experience in war tactics while still building neutral accounts military strength to join conflicts at a later time...it also prevents player burnout of the account holder and allows the greater membership of larger groups to use their collective strength against opposing groups when playing the neutral card of their many accounts

if u divide up duties it speeds the game, for instance i do resources and sov building and changing, having one person in charge of moving resources and changing sov buildings to the military type needed as a specialist really cuts down from switching from one aspect to another. alot of this game is time management and running an account 24/7 maxes productivity...i would practice some simple things to see how easy account sitting is...with your two main accounts make them account sitter of each other and then sit a second persons two accounts....switch back and forth between the accounts....practice giving and taking away away sitting rights...its actually very fun...then u will realize what i mean about an account should belong to the alliance and the advantages of playing with real accounts far outweigh playing with an abandoned account or a quitter...the addition of the alliance prestige pool changed that old way of thinking.  the way the game is currently played just does not allow neutral players, especially with the account sitting function and the trading hubs..remember i do resources and having a good war time economy is one of the most important aspects of war,