Quote Originally Posted by Hyth79 View Post
How are you going to create the province to sit in the first place though? If you create a second prov to sit for the sake of having that province aid your primary province, you'd have to either 1. create it using the same IP as your primary, which would probably flag both accounts for deletion 2. create it using a different IP. But if you go through the trouble of making a second account using a different IP (and you get away with it), why would you bother to province sit in the first place? You wouldn't because province sitting requires money and with situation #2 you have a means of cheating that accomplishes the same thing, but is free.

My point is that province sitting, in and of itself, is not an advantage. People keep bringing up province sitting because they think it's a means of forcing people to pay i.e. if you province sit, then you can equalize the disadvantage that the new rules impose on previously whitelisted players. But you can only do this for 3 weeks (not the whole age) and so it's pretty clear that the intention of this new change is not to rope people into having to pay for province sitting. Making the accusation that the devs are greedy and that's why they've implemented this change is not based in fact; just because you are upset, doesn't mean that you are correct. Those of you who are upset and disagree with the changes have some good points, but making false accusations doesn't help your cause.
Never said that the devs are doing this for the money, only pointing out how is sitting unfair as well. The fact that it costs a significant amount of money moves it towards a pay to escape a rule principle.

Scenario A:
There are a pair of whitelisted roomates. Roomate A decides to go on vacation. He has a few choices:
Under the old system, roomate B can potentially just xlog his mate
Roomate A can go for vacation mode like an honest player
Roomate A can pay for province sitting and have KDmate C sit his prov for the equivalent of what roomate B could have done

So what is the difference between choices 1 and 3?

Scenario B:
Sitting can be used for 21 days maximum per age (counting 72 hours per min time war we have 7 wars ). 20 prov kd. 10 players are hyperactives, 10 are slackers. Everytime a war comes, slackers turn on province sitting. so 10 hyperactives play 20 provinces during war for a price. (paying for xlogging)

Compare with Scenario C:
Whitelisted players now have a huge restriction on interactions. 10 pairs of whitelisted players become impaired in war. as opposed to the sitting scenario B. Even if the whitelisted players were multis, what is the difference that can be seen from scenario B? All i can see is that one is multi-ing all the time and the other would be half the time. So is sitting now a big advantage or what?

PS: The reason why i chose 72 hours is because sitting must be turned on for minimum of 72 hours and not the war time 48 hour minimum