Leapdave 9 Posted May 4, 2019 The 9 hour combat phase prevents localized companies that are in the same time zone from stopping offline grief. Taking over islands should not be easy, and should not be done while the owners are offline. Mathematically, people who work typically work 8 to 9 hours. That's 6am to 3pm or 8am to 5pm (approx). This means the best you can do to prevent offline grief is combat phase of 3pm to 12am. You are forcing people who work at 8 in the morning to be up until midnight defending their island every night, or else all of their ships can be destroyed with nobody to defend (on most islands) Combat phase of 4pm to 11pm (7 hours) is perfectly manageable for productive members of society Huge companies fighting each other can already use war tokens to take over islands. If you can't take an island in 7 hours and don't want to use a war token then you probably don't deserve the island Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
