Ulykus to answer your questions in order :-
This thread was made when the Friendly Battle was first being organised and was placed here under General for both Kami and Karavan to see declaring a random declaration would be made in a week on a RANDOM OP. One week later i made the declaration on a karavan guild so as to not be seen as trying to use it to take an OP for ourselves, but unfortunately due to internal conflict in the Karavan the attack and Friendly Battle was called off.
A "Serious" attack was then placed on Artysian Explorers for the same time giving the Kami and the Karavan plenty of time to gather numbers, and was declared a serious attack in the Karavan Forum requesting Karavan backup and expressing our intention to Keep the OP if won.
As for delaying the patch this is the first i have heard that so cant comment passed the fact i was unaware until you just told me that the patch was scheduled for that day. The Battle Date and time were taken from the original declaration and transfered to the new declaration on Artysian Explorers. This was done so that anyone that had made plans to try and be there around the original battle time were not inconvenienced by the turn of events.
I really hope that i have answered your questions enough to eliminate your confusion :)
This thread was made when the Friendly Battle was first being organised and was placed here under General for both Kami and Karavan to see declaring a random declaration would be made in a week on a RANDOM OP. One week later i made the declaration on a karavan guild so as to not be seen as trying to use it to take an OP for ourselves, but unfortunately due to internal conflict in the Karavan the attack and Friendly Battle was called off.
A "Serious" attack was then placed on Artysian Explorers for the same time giving the Kami and the Karavan plenty of time to gather numbers, and was declared a serious attack in the Karavan Forum requesting Karavan backup and expressing our intention to Keep the OP if won.
As for delaying the patch this is the first i have heard that so cant comment passed the fact i was unaware until you just told me that the patch was scheduled for that day. The Battle Date and time were taken from the original declaration and transfered to the new declaration on Artysian Explorers. This was done so that anyone that had made plans to try and be there around the original battle time were not inconvenienced by the turn of events.
I really hope that i have answered your questions enough to eliminate your confusion :)