Clan war issue

[Turock]

If a clan declares war on another clan they can attack unlimited times and then go to clan manage and change releations so that they are no longer at war right away. There should be a waiting period so that this can't happen.

-- edit:
I am looking at the code and that there is a clanadmin.php and a clanmanage.php. I am assuming that we are using the clanmange.php and the clanadmin.php is leftover from versions past?

[Devari]

Yep, we're quite aware of that. Every Promisance game is like that, to our knowledge.

We've also discussed this matter before - I believe we are mostly in favour of time limits?

[Ruddertail]

Yes, I think most of us want a time limit.

[The Beatles]

clanadmin.php is for admins to edit clan data and create clans. Only admins can use it.

[Urran Voh]

What should be done is each clan agree on a time limit, and when you are setting the opposing clan to war, you are asked how long you want to wage war against this clan. Just a thought.

[Tarislarech]

ooh Good idea

[The Beatles]

That has some problems:
1. What if you want to continue the war beyond what you originally intended, or stop it earlier? You can't ask anyone to say in advance how long they want to war, just at least how long.
2. If two parties had to agree to war, there wouldn't be war.

So I think just set a time limit in the game.

[Ruddertail]

1: That's pretty much the situation we have currently, besides. If I just want to use war for a landgrab, I set for 30 Minutes. Same effect, really.

2: Well, it can be a war (IE, two powerful clans want to find out who really is tops, so they agree to a war to settle it), but that's not the way it normally works.

[Urran Voh]

We normally don't settle our differences by using little furry creatures with pointy objects, do we?

[Ruddertail]

That's not relevent.

[Slasher]

Time limit would be good and something that shows in the clan that has been set to enemy leader's news so a player can't constrantly mess around changing things then putting it back to normal to make themself look innocent. (Doesn't quite make sense but shh you should get what I mean )

[Tarislarech]

I do not like the fact that a clan can declare war on you, attack like crazy and then turn it off like nothing happened. Yes, It would be great if you got a message on your news page, so and so clan declare war on you 2.4 hours ago blah blah. If someone wants to declare war on me then fight to the death or submission. But declaring war on my clan then smashing my lower members into oblivion and turning it off and acting like you are innocent. ooh that riles me. They should be stuck in the 36 hour period just like the personal war was. Give me a chance to strike back.

Even if it stays this way and you can turn it on and shut it off. If I had a news thing pop up to say they had done it I would be much happier. I could strike back with justification.

I declare war on you empire, just kidding, war , oops not really, charge!, oh I didn't do anything. That really gets on my nerves. *laughs*

Ok, There's my two cents.

[Turock]

Even with a time limit it could still be abused. Clan leaders were allowing players to join their clan that was at war with someone, do mass attacks, then kick the player that just joined out of the clan.

[The Beatles]

Unfortunately, clan kicking can be abused in a whole variety of ways.

[Devari]

Proposal: Clan restrictions - leader can restrict members from treasury and forums. Perhaps even MOTD. Kicking can be done only after a day or two.

Thus, the reasons for kicking (treasury stealing and forum spying) are eliminated, and the clan can safely wait until the safeguarded time.