Posted by Enslaver on 9:52 AM

This is something I am seeing happen more and more as keep ownership changes hands, and zones flip and revert. Let’s look at what happens when a fort is successfully defended. The "fight" flips back to the middle zones, aka: Praag, Thunder Mountain, and Dragon Wake. Each of these zones starts with basic control, so for this discussion we will focus on Praag. The south keep's ownership is order, north's is destruction base.

When a zone reverts, what is occurring is the current owner will stack into the lords room waiting for the revert to claim the keep immediately post the flip. This is kind of a grey area, I for one don’t think that it is an acceptable practice, but they do have ownership prior to the zone revert.

My first thought would be to expel every one from the keep that is not of the controlling faction post the flip, since you would think that the incoming leadership at the fort would have the "power" to regain control, thus forcing the faction to actually retake the keep vie conventional means, and thus promoting battle instead of promoting RVE'ing. The second one would be to make the lord un-attackable for 5 min after the zone flip, allowing defenders to show up and allowing attackers to fortify their positions.

Now of course there is the option to leave the system in the status quo, but doing that just promotes RVE'ing which is not what this game is about. When you as a defender have to spend a majority of your time sitting in a fortress, or so on holding off forces while the attackers supply lines change course and go to another location to get ready for an easy keep win, thus unbalancing the system that is in place.

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