(01-16-2022, 03:03 AM)martianant Wrote:(01-16-2022, 02:28 AM)Deantwo Wrote: I am not sure how this would work with the noncombatant system. You should probably be able to siege a system even if the owner(s) are offline, but then even once the solar system has been contested the attacker likely has to wait for them to come online to proceed with the attack.
With that kind of system, you don't need "offline protection" at all because the defender has plenty of time to respond.
Yeah that is somewhat my conclusion too. The new protection that Haxus has been implementing for noncombatant feature could just be there by default until a solar system is contested. But this of course all assume that you login once per week (or whatever length of time a siege might be for tiny outpost systems) in order to notice you are under siege.
I don't think it is impossible to have both this type of conquest mechanic and the noncombatant protection at the same time though, but it might be a little weird if the defender can just refuse to login so the siege goes on forever.
The noncombatant feature does seem like it fits nicely for an adventure player at least. That is when we are talking about just a single ship owned by a captain and he has parked it in a safe harbor.