Is it possible for communications authority to be divided further so that control over who can send recruitment telegrams is separated from the ability to send mass telegrams within a region and the ability to suppress RMB posts? Suppression of RMB posts and mass telegrams within a region are both functions which the LKE would like to delegate to its regional officers, but I am unwilling to give anyone else control over who can send recruitment telegrams.
Gest wrote:If the admins don't want occupations then it's not a problem. The defenders, who let's get real wouldn't shed many tears if there was no invading, being perfectly satisfied doing some other secondary activity in this game, will probably not have a problem. If you believe the R/D needs to be "mitigated", who cares if it happens, then again it's not a problem.
I would add my voice to this. Deciding to prevent new delegates from removing border control regional officers for 26 hours would pose a massive obstacle to any occupation following a standard raid in a region with border control region officers (who would presumably have very high-influence levels compared to the new invaders). Most large founderless regions would presumably embrace this option. The decision on whether to implement this change is basically a choice on whether such occupations such be allowed to continue or whether the vast majority of raiding activity should degenerate into tagging. There would of course be some founderless regions without border control regional officers, but these would generally be smaller and less desirable targets.
It has been suggested that raiding regions could move to stealth raiding, rather than brute-force update takeovers, and that this is a solution to a problem. The first point to make is that stealth raiding is a minority activity that takes a lot of time and (especially if it goes involves organising a large number of units) effort. Non-raider regions which invade (i.e. imperialist and independent regions), that don't focus exclusively on military gameplay and raid for the political advantages rather than the enjoyment of the skill of raiding in itself, would therefore be particularly disadvantaged if this is the expectation. However, the more general point is that even following a stealth raid, conducting an occupation in these circumstances would still be significantly more difficult and complicated than it is today. There would be much fewer occupations. It is tagging, not stealth raiding, which would see the main uptake.
As for the suggestion of a shorter delay, that may not be as quite bad, but it would still present significant difficulties in cases where border control regional officers are habitually active in that 2-hour window or can be contacted; this might not be the case in ordinary founderless regions, but in defender regions and other such good targets, it may well be - indeed I would expect them to specifically arrange so that border control officers are appointed in major potential targets who would be habitually active near every update, which would advantage them regardless of this change. Just because no changes are made on the WFE doesn't mean an invasion cannot be quite easily spotted by natives, especially the more militarily aware natives (which we would expect border control regional officers to be); they could just look at the regional happenings and make inferences in the case of a brute-force takeover.
On the other hand, I can entirely support prohibitions that prevent new delegates from appointing new border control regional officers within a particular time-frame (perhaps the precise time-frame to be determined by influence level so it can be lengthened for typical invading delegates) or which maintain ejection speeds at a rate which represents the maximum a single human could feasibly do. I would also be happy for the number of regional officers with border control powers to be restricted. Such changes merely help preserve the
status quo, whereas preventing new delegates from dismissing, or removing border control power from, regional officers simply has the consequence of making occupations extremely difficult. In fact, I would prefer to see Rivercastle's proposal of removing border control from regional officers altogether than the 26 hour delay on removing border control regional officers.