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Originally Posted by Tietäjä

Agreed. But this, however, has nothing to do with the PA team actually agreeing to do so. As pointed, they haven't, in their past either, been piss all interested in who gets damaged and who doesn't. On some aspects, obviously, regarding the r18 example, a group of players (SEX -block) benefited from the downtime handling (allowing them to defend), so they were a bigger party benefiting, while Omen was the smaller party getting hurt. This is a pretty vain argument, but the point isn't the "majority decides", but that the "PA team decides, no amount of whining, argumenting, or threatening with fleetcatches will ever change it".

As you yourself pointed out, a common sense solution wasn't executed in round 18. I think, during most of the downtimes in the past, common sense solutions haven't been executed (instead, they've been fairly unpredictable and volatile, with no consistent line at all). At least now we have a consistent line, even if it does hurt people. The question is, whether that line needs to be modified to cover more various situations or allow more footage to move on (for example: fleets will be recalled if it seems appropriate). I am in support of the procedure, because it gives something that will certainly happen, and something we can expect when the ticker, as often as it does, goes awol.

The point is, that if we have a solution that PA apply from an unarguable position, it should be the best one. The current solution is clearly not the best, yet we have people demanding its application simply to maintain the authority of PA team. Their authority is irrelevant, the only authority should be that the game is run well, the game takes precedence over everything and everyone.

I have offered a solution that seriously minimises unfairness, keeps a lot of people happy and for those it's even slightly unfair on, gives people sufficient notice to act, and arrange to be online if at all possible because it's at least giving you a chance to do something. If people think they can guess their fleets accurately enough and plan to be online while the game is unaccessible so they can defend in a one hour window for those attacks that might be at ETA 5, best of luck to them.