Ingfarah
When you declare war, you shouldn't expect to win "only if they don't notice", or "only if they're busy elsewhere", or "only if they don't deem it worth it".
That one right there makes it a bit difficult for us Americans. Sure, 1800-2000 UTC may be good any day of the week for European players, it also means that any American who has a normal job is pretty much barred from the battle; many of us are not up for going into work on less than 3 hours sleep, and we don't have the sort of social safety net that allows us to jsut take a day off work if we plan to keep living indoors or eating.
Likewise, while something around 0800-1000 UTC on a weekend may seem like a nice way to start your Saturday, us Americans are generally not up for waking up at 0200 local time. And I'm sure that Europeans aren't exactly happy when the "courtesy" is reciprocated by scheduling a battle for 2000 PDT (0200 UTC) either. And yet, more than a few OP battles I've seen (especially recently) have used the "They're all asleep/at work" as part fo their strategy for winning.
Even without the "2-3 toons wasting an entire faction's time" declarations, something needs to be done about how OP declarations are done.... unless we want to revert to each continent having their own server again, which I don't particularly like the thought of.
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