Surrender terms for wars in Illyriad

I think what we will see in BL is far greater nucleation of alliances and that the PvP side of the map will be split in half based on the current meta-alliances.

And yet the city itself does not retain advanced materials or trade units like caravans or traders. I wouldn't bet everything in a hub that it will survive account destruction.

@Epidemic: As I've said in other threads, I believe this war is a break with Illyriad's prior tradition of gallantry. We are discussing the results of obliteration because alliances have now put that option on the table. I also believe that future conflicts will not happen between alliances; everything will immediately escalate to the mega-alliance level, which will ensure the focused destruction of opposing accounts, starting with the weakest links (and not necessarily alliance leaders or warriors). In other words, Illyriad will come to resemble most other MMORTS, where the biggest guilds and confederations can dictate all terms, backed by the threat of destruction. Broken Lands won't change that. In fact, I expect it to accelerate the phenomenon, since power on new servers depends primarily on critical mass.

Although it is a rare event, it has happened in the past and will likely happen again in the future.  The fact that after more than a year of trade hubs being active no one has tested this question yet (so far as we know) speaks to how rare the occurrence is.

Brandmeister wrote: Because when your last city is destroyed, you are kicked back to the newb ring. I understood that to basically be an account reset.

It all boils down to whether the account ID is reset as well or not ... I do not think it is, ergo you keep your stuff in the hubs ...

My understanding is that possessions in the hub remain even if your cities are destroyed.  I am not going to volunteer to test that theory, though.