The upcoming war changes are on the horizon and will change the territory ownership on every single server, EXCEPT for servers controlled by top companies with multiple alts. One account is on war cd? They can just hop onto their other accounts. A solution I propose is to have a server wide war siege timer so that every territories’ war is at the same time and then rotate that siege timer weekly. For example, one week the siege timer is 8-9, the next week is 9-10, etc. This gives more opportunity for other people to join wars. This would also make war cooldowns and in-house requirements invalid because you would only be able to join in on one war per day anyways.
Benefits:
A LOT more people will be able to participate in wars.
Renders alt accounts useless
Mercs will not be as big of a deal
Drawbacks:
Limits war to once per day
I honestly think the benefits outweigh the disadvantages here. In a perfect scenario, if all territories have war on the same time, that requires 1,200(12 territories x 100 people) to be in a war. This would allow a great portion of the New World community to experience wars.
Have you ever done a war when 4 other wars are going on? Let alone potentially the whole map, the server would lag into oblivion. Besides there isn’t anything you can do to prevent someone from purchasing a new copy of the game and leveling another character. Sure some people have a steam share thing where they were able to get multiple versions, but it’s a small percentage of players. The up coming changes are a great start. Your change wouldn’t increase war spots for players. There is a reason why siege timers can be moved around. You can set it to make sure all your players are available. Forcing everyone to play at certain times wouldn’t go over well.
For example we have multiple players who are on east coast which is why we set the timer to 8 pm pacific. That way all our players can make it. If you did forced times and sometimes it was at 9 or 10 server time. Loads of our players couldn’t make it. And vice versa on east side. West coast players almost can never make 7 or 8 o clock east wars, that’s 4 and 5 pm for them. Ya having sever wise forced siege timers just wouldn’t work.