POB Change Suggestions

[Sava]

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Suggestion
Type:Rules / POB Plugin
Title: Vulnerability time windows for POBs (tweaking of siege rules and/or mechanic)

Specifics

• POBs can take damage only during a pre-set hours (vulnerability windows)
  
• 2 vulnerability windows (about 1-2 hours each), one set by the owner, another by the attackers to minimize the impact of different time zones
  
• The owner can specify his POB vulnerability window once the base is built. He can change it whenever he wants, unless there is an active siege declaration(can't change during the siege). Owner's base vulnerability window is made PUBLIC.
  
• If owner's vulnerability window isn't specified, attackers can choose both windows for their convenience. Attackers' choice is made public in the POB attack declaration.
  
• Since suggested windows are relatively short (no longer than 2 hours each), if owner and attackers time preferences are similar, attackers just have to put their window right before/after the owner's, I see no problem here. They can not overlap.
  
• Maximal damage the base can take during the time window chosen by attackers equals to the amount of HP it can heal per 24 hours. Damage it can take during the owner's phase is unlimited.
  
• Attack declaration expires in X days. However, If attackers manage to damage the POB below Y% of it's original HP, the siege continues until the POB is destroyed, or it reaches 100% of it's HP, and a cooldown period starts until next declaration can be issued.
  
• Cooldown period is Z days (weeks)
  
• POB shield efficiency, repair rate and max HP may require tweaking to make this work properly.
  
• Can be done (almost) entirely by tweaking the siege rules, no coding required
  

Potential Problems

• requires testing and proper balancing

Example of Effect
The fighting concentrates around 3-4 hours a day, much less exhausting and toxic for the players. To achieve their goal, each team has to succeed in the preferred time window of their counterparts. To overcome the repair rate, damage the base to Y% threshold, and subsequently kill it, attackers have to siege during the owner's vulnerability window (supposedly high-pop time). To let their base fully repair and claim victory, defenders need to brake siege during attackers' time window (supposedly night/morning time) in addition to supplying it.


Further Discussion
The attackers' phase damage cap is intended to, on one hand, make it impossible to kill a base when everyone but siegers is asleep, on the other give them a leverage big enough that, if not countered, will make defense impossible either, and the base can be gradually worn down by attacks (even relatively small) during defenders' time window. It has to be capped somewhere close the repair rate, otherwise it enables the much-hated 3 AM AFK krieg and almost complete absence of normal PvP, and I think everyone agrees that's not what we want.

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