Unify Movement options

I still don't even know what your talking about when your talking about lightning wars possibly happening here unless someone suggested to decrease siege times also...

Most people would be able to see armies that were near their town if you took a look around and even after that it would still take siege equipment 12 hrs to setup and I don't think the average city will be sieged to the ground in 12 hrs after that... unless there is almost no population there already.

Then even with all of that it doesn't change the fact that politics on the server still for the most part dictate that were all supposed to be happy and hold hands... which doesn't always happen but the general mindset of the server is sing songs and dance together.

What it does change however is that perhaps an ally of yours know there is a war coming up one could mass up their troops in a particular region while otherwise it may take days to arrive. At least with the idea of being able to issue orders it would be more of a matter in how quickly a messenger could get there with a list of instructions which still gives the advantage to the local players but makes a war outside of your neighborhood at least do-able. Otherwise with the current setup you would simply respond to a hit on your ally and then go home. Then move back to the next target and head back home.

Either reinforcing an allied city or allow armies to construct a fort.  Sort of like a siege encampment, but can station on any open square.  Make it require multiple days and resources to construct, and it allows you to give armies new orders from that location only.  Also give it an upkeep like sov, and orders still require a messenger to travel from your town to the fort in order to command the occupying army.

Rill wrote: There are a lot of folks who play Illy who only log in once or twice a day.  One of the GREAT things about Illy is that you can sleep at night without worrying you will be wiped out overnight. I agree that these movement changes would change the pace of the game and the associated tactics and strategies, but there are at least some and perhaps many of us who would prefer not to have that change.  There are other games out there where lightning wars are possible.  I've played them.  They are sort of exciting, but they get old quickly.

There are a lot of folks who play Illy who only log in once or twice a day.  One of the GREAT things about Illy is that you can sleep at night without worrying you will be wiped out overnight.

Salararius wrote: geofrey wrote: There is 1 serious problem with allowing any military orders to be sent to an army out in the wild. That army could be parked 20 squares away from it's target. It recieves the orders to siege the target.  Now the targeted player only has a 2 hour alert window until the enemy siege hits.  That is scary. The only  appropriate preventative measure is to have players and alliance destroy any neutral/enemy occupied forces near their city, or atleast constantly scout them. It really adds new dimensions to the game.  With the built in attack advantage, if you can't destroy an army camped near your cities then it really doesn't matter if that player attacks from 20 squares or 200.  If you're not paying attention enough to notice the encampment then will you really notice the attack from 200 squares? Perhaps armies permanently assigned to the field are assessed a 10% higher upkeep charge to balance the increased flexibility. Not that I expect this to change but it would be interesting.