do people like 72 hour retal windows?

enshula

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Jun 24th 2010, 5:13:11

personally i dont care too much and a longer window makes things a bit easier for me as im not really planning on grabbing in ffa

but would people want or care about a shorter standard retal window in ffa?

the impression i get is some people like not having to bother playing for a few days every now and then and no one is really in favour of anyone grabbing anyone lol

NOW3P

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Jun 24th 2010, 5:42:39

I think with faster turns, it makes sense to scale down the retal window. Things are being scaled down in Express to accommodate turn rates, so might as well do it here too.

I guess I really don't care though, whatever folks like.

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llaar

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Jun 24th 2010, 18:38:50

need 3 days for people to see hit, post on retal board, and retal and stuff

takes time for that, a lot of times retals arent even posted up for a day or two... in which case if period was shortened i think fewer retals would be taken

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Jun 24th 2010, 19:37:46

jup

72 hour retal windows were made for 72 hour bricks to be thrown through >=)

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kemo

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Jun 24th 2010, 21:01:33

you have 16 countries with which to retal with. 72 aint needed

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llaar

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Jun 24th 2010, 21:41:22

if i go away for the weekend without internet, and am hit friday night, and i dont login again til monday, i'll have lost any retals if it was 48 hour window...

72 hours is needed... 2 days is too short of notice, not everyone plays every day, and even those that do, are busy 2 days at a time sometimes

its not about needing 72 hours to build up to retal, its needing 72 hours to notice that you've been hit

kemo

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Jun 24th 2010, 23:51:48

too many people take advantage of that though. it aint hard to get a good hit and fa def to that one for 3 days straight

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NOW3P

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Jun 24th 2010, 23:54:40

I kinda agree w/ llaar that sometimes special allowances may need to be made. Perhaps the best idea is to go 48 hrs unless otherwise discussed between FA's to accommodate special cirucmstances?

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kemo

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Jun 25th 2010, 0:52:03

just have it in your pact that attacking country clearly has to follow defenders retal policy. if they still dont eat their dogs and or wife

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llaar

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Jun 25th 2010, 19:12:07

FA's have lives too

at times 72 hours hasn't even been enough to figure crap out if someone isn't watching the news close enough

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Jun 25th 2010, 19:13:57

*passes llaar a cool, refreshing bear* :D

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Dallas

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Jun 25th 2010, 19:51:04

grizzly bear?

BP

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Jun 25th 2010, 20:18:20

Originally posted by Akula:

*passes llaar a cool, refreshing bear* :D

Polar bear obviously!

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Dallas

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Jun 25th 2010, 20:24:07

Grizzly bears are cool

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Jun 25th 2010, 20:32:28

african polar bears will own all

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Dragon

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Jun 26th 2010, 0:11:17

I think if you can't do a retal within 24 hours, you aren't doing something right or the hit is from an attacker that's just way too big. A shorter retal window would force players to be less lazy. You hit me and I'm retalling you as soon as I see it. Because I probably can.

A 48 hour window is plenty especially with accelerated turns.

Edited By: Dragon on Jun 26th 2010, 0:15:40
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Jul 2nd 2010, 9:40:47

Agreed!

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Jul 2nd 2010, 10:54:08

agreed also

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kemo

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Jul 2nd 2010, 16:03:16

i was probly just lookin at it from my perspective of im able to check news rather often as i do see llaars point

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Twain

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Jul 2nd 2010, 17:48:31

48 hours, ftw.

Turns come and go a lot faster now than they used to. I think a 48 hour window might actually encourage people to land grab, since there's a greater chance you might get away with the land. And while I'm a self-farmer, I would rather see land-grabbing come back.

Dragon

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Jul 2nd 2010, 19:31:13

Originally posted by llaar:

FA's have lives too

at times 72 hours hasn't even been enough to figure crap out if someone isn't watching the news close enough

If you and/or your clan can't "figure out" a retal in 48, let alone 72 hours, there's something very wrong. This isn't rocket science.

And in those 1 in 1 Million cases where something is THAT "confusing", exceptions can be made by mutual agreement between FA's of the clans involved.

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Jul 3rd 2010, 6:32:04

72 hours.. :O)

Some do haves lives on weekends..
I envy them..

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Jul 3rd 2010, 9:14:47

shh...

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Jul 3rd 2010, 10:39:47

what happened?

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Jul 3rd 2010, 17:52:37

72 hrs, for all us workin stiffs.

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Jul 3rd 2010, 20:55:40

I prefer 72 hr.

General TwizTid

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Jul 4th 2010, 5:59:09

after reading this, 48 hours seems better, and like someone said, if you cant take a retal in that time, why bother take retals at all?

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Jul 4th 2010, 7:56:56

this game has already been made ridiculously easy for netters to bottom feed the fluff outta small countries that can't retal. atleast with 72 hrs + having 16 countries, after three days, people have a chance to retal.

General TwizTid

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Jul 5th 2010, 11:44:05

Sauron: The only time you will have a small country is under the current circumstances, and even then you have police.

Now for untags and such, most usually dont care about a retal window, and 1 man tags can usually fend for themselves unless farmed like fluffes.

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Thunder

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Jul 5th 2010, 11:50:03

Shh he was drunk...caus that fluff didn't even make sense

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Jul 7th 2010, 13:40:26

someone is trying to raise their post count:P

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