(Lieutenant)

10/02/08 10:41 PM

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Re: SOI and Garrison Limits

05/13/2006

Declarations of War: The contiguous zone update listed below, as well as future updates that have not yet been finalized, require us to limit the cancellations of DOW's. Beginning Monday, any DOW declared will not cancel until one of the parties involved surrenders.

SOI Update: Max Garrison limits now use a continuity of zones check that ensures there is a path from your target zone to all the zones that it is counting towards your SOI. This will ensure that empires can't simply keep a ring of zones in the hands of an ally directly around their cities to force attackers to hotdrop but still keep a high garrison.

To prevent an attacker from simply being able to occupy the few zones directly around your city and force most of the unit in it to mobilize, any empire that you are currently at war with (or is at war with you) will NOT block zones from being counted as contiguous. This means that if an enemy declares war and then takes the 4 zones right around your city, you can still count any other zones within your 9x9 box that you own/control towards your max garrison. Attackers will need to occupy all of those other zones if they intend to force you to mobilize.

Currently the continuity check reaches several zones outside of the 9x9 box so that if you can connect zones via a circuitous path they will still count. This adds a significant number of checks to the process, and if it is deemed too slow it will be reduced to the normal 9x9 box meaning that you would need to trace a path within that 9x9 area to count zones. Hopefully that will not be necessary.

The $10 million SOI water claiming period has expired. We let it go on for far longer than originally announced or intended.