It would be a good idea to have this 20 min Temporary Vacation Mode twice daily, where during this 20 min, your country is not allowed to run turns, buy military, or anything other thing else.

In return, you do not get touched(KR-ed) either in this 20 mins.

I believe that most of us have some important things daily that activating this 20 min Temporary Vacation Mode could help us in a way or another.

For E.G

Taking a shower/poop [most common]
Having a quickie with your wife/girlfriend
Having a debate/argument with your wife/girlfriend
Fighting diablo boss without disturbance for 20mins
and
Many others!

With this suggestion in placed, imagine all the peace we would have when we do the above?

what if you did it mid KR ?

Program it in a way that this 'mode' cannot be activated if there is any form of activity in your recent news in the last 5 minutes?

does that include market sales?

weren't people saying killing was too easy? :D

now that would be pretty cool mid kill-run the assumption being you could log on before the country died ;)

Sorry come again? I dont really understand your question..

she meant that if player would be able to log to his/her country before it dies and manages to engage that 20 min vacation but if player is under attack it can't be activated.

It's one thing to log on quickly during a full-speed kill run, in fact it's entirely reasonable to have the login bookmarked on your mobile (or, already waiting to log in if you're expecting visitors).

What can't easily be done on a phone is everything after logging in. Quickly refreshing your news to see the speed of hits, loading up the private market to buy/sell units, buying food from the public market, and finally cashing turns all take time, especially any place you have to input numbers in a text box. Three times in the past two sets I've been able to log on during a kill run, but haven't been able to do any effective walling and died within a few seconds of doing so.

As an alternative (or in addition to) slowing down attacks, it would be nice to see some sort of defensive capability added to the main page. Maybe a temporary vacation mode that depends on turns -- forfeit 5 turns for 5 minutes of immunity. Or maybe a smoother way to take some defensive steps, like selling units on the private market (via pushbutton or slider, anything faster than a text box).

thank you Marshall yes that is what I meant in my garbled encrypted message :D

and why no vacation mode mid-killrun :( My dreams of vacationing in the smoldering ruins of a country have been shattered.

uBer I can definitely see trading turns for immunity, could be very useful. Especially if the player could still perform some actions.

Trading turns for immunity? Sounds like the perfect way to make a TMBR at the end of the reset immune!

I'm sure limitations could be added, similar to how GDI limits what you can do near the end of the set in Express.

you have to TAKE the turns for the immunity! haha! :p

interesting discussion