Later Everyone

[Nuclear Raunch]

People learn faster when the punishment happens immediately. If they lose half their crap within 1 minute of online hitting you they are much more likely to avoid it in the future. That's why I go for the immediate STD hits.

If you let them build on it then there's no incentive for them to wait. They can put massive amounts of their troops on PM so you can't really destroy their forces, resources are pretty easy to hide as well. Basically the worst you can do is hit them to low land which isn't really that big of a deal unless you're a mage.