Dysian wrote:Indeed, this would be a huge blow on the invaders, and yes Naivetry, your chance of countering update raids WILL be increased by at least 70%. Here's why (if you really haven't figured it out yet, and you're not just acting so it can pass):
A region in your dossier, means that you get reports from said region. It's actually very simple: a well trained defenders puts all founderless regions in his dossier, and just checks the dossier at update for "suspicious actions", calls his people in and it's done. Sure this may not seem very easy for one sole defender - but if you take in account that defenders are all over this game, and seemingly a majority over raiders, you will realise that this feature would make update raids practically impossible. And they're hard to do even now (trust me, I would know!).
You'll notice I'm arguing that this
would be a big benefit for defenders, given the current state of some (certainly not all) raider operations. But I maintain it would have no impact on a
properly run update raid. Years of tracking raiders have shown me exactly how to conduct a raid so as not to be tracked, and in my experience a large number of raiders simply don't bother to take such steps. And they often get away with it because active and committed defenders, as opposed to some of the native-friendly but militarily inactive nations who post here, are spread very thinly indeed these days.
And no; I don't play tricks when I come here. I may be wrong about what I say, but I believe everything I say.
NotPing wrote:Pythagosaurus wrote:Defenders don't get to choose when and where to strike.
That's the nature of defending... they react. They could choose where if they were 2 or more invasions to choose from, and when is a matter of delaying the liberation until the next update
I think the point of that statement, to put it back into context, was that defenders do not have twice the opportunity to defend, unless raiders are in fact raiding twice as often. Our benefit (and it is substantial) comes from being able to choose times for liberations, not defenses. But I think that's a discussion for
another thread.
To be honest, I'm really not sure what the point would be of dossiering regions if there's no report feature attached; but maybe Firefox's URL-completion feature has spoiled me.
I don't make a habit of checking RMBs except when something interesting is taking place in a given region, so I usually just hit the NS link in my bookmarks toolbar and type "region=namehere" - and that way, I don't have to be logged in to a specific nation. As for checking on more than one region at a time, a set of bookmarks where you can push "open all in tabs" would be even faster than a set of dossier links. *shrugs*
Actually, what I'd like would be the ability to collect RMB activity from a dossiered region. That would make it worthwhile. I don't know how many times I've missed an answer to my post, or the beginning of a conversation... or a string of interesting gossip in
TORC, or whatever.