Originally Posted by
Shai
There is no rule book. Anyone can have their own view on this. Usually a rule of thumb many used back when the game still matterd was 12h of no retaliations from one side (this have been discussed lots of times in these forums, Im supriced they all evaded a forum warrior like you). Basically the time it took to get armies back home. I got waved plenty of times just 3-4h after waving another kd with the words "we asked the kd you waved, they arent gonna war you or retal so there is no hostile" without there being any alliance interfeerence (because we usually handled the problem ourselves anyway). So I guess back then for many simply no intent of fighting back was enough to make it not a hostile.
I have no clue what people use these days? Maybe Palems "its over when I say its over"? But size got little to do with whether its a hostile or not. Any kd who actively fights back is making it an active hostile (thus why so many use the word active hostile when they mean a legit hostile). So if someone is inactive in a hostile and not fighting back maybe its one sided and not a real hostile then?
If you wanna discuss this current case then I would say when one kd hit 30% of the other kds size, cant hit back a single province, havent hit back for over a day and the other kd are exploring half their provinces peacefully at no risk, then the hostile is over.
ps im off to bed now so wont repsond for some time :) ds