Quote Originally Posted by Pillz View Post
Maybe person B is in another timezone, and not sacrificing anything to sit person A.

The RL time or convenience cost is not what we're measuring here. It is the in-game benefit (a province being available when it otherwise wouldn't be) and the price of that benefit in real world currency. You are very clearly paying for a feature that offers ingame benefits. 24-hour sitting cycle at least placed relative burden on the sitter, since they would in fact be responsible for two provinces for 24 hours. That DOES care a RL cost that can, potentially, offset the immediate benefit of not missing that 2am hit. There is a cost-benefit analysis to make on the 24-hour cycle. Namely, is it worthwhile to set sitter for 24 hours if you'll only miss one hit, because there may not be a sitter available who can reliably play those 24 hours.

If you can set sitting on an hourly basis, the potential for your sitter to be busy and miss hits or suffer personal inconvienence is no longer a factor. It also means that since sitting is limited to 21-RL days, you can now potentially use sitting a greater number of times over all for more situations.

Any kingdom willing to PAY for this feature is at an immediate advantage over a kingdom that does not. Activity is of the utmost importance. The change from a 24-hour to a 1-hour base for sitting multiples the advantages that can be derived from sitting.

Sitting was already, like the hostility meter, a pay2win feature. Now that has been amplified.
You missed the point on the A vs B, it wasn't B sitting A. My fault for wording. It was same result, just one gave up one real world dollar the other gave up real world sleep for the same utopian effect.

It's not the difference for a province being available, that's you inferring a constant for out of game. People's real life constraints aren't in-game... Assuming they can't be there vs they don't want to be there is wrong.

The wording of it was that the minimum to take back over your province was reduced to 1 hour from 24 hours. That doesn't say that the setting of it is 1 day, and the cost of it is 1 day, and the 1 day comes from your 21 days. So you could use 21 hours and be out of sitting theoretically.

Any kingdom that pays for invites is paying 2 win! Any kingdom that uses 24hr sitting is paying 2 win. By your standards. So this new change isn't any new pay 2 win function.