At the moment if you are not in a faction (one comprised of more than yourself) you have to be available 16/7 (8 hours of night time) or risk being attacked and not being able to recruit mercenaries.
What I would like to see added is an option to give someone control of your roster (also battalion flags?).
1. You can select someone and give them roster control, you can only change this person once a week.
2. You can select someone who signs up for your battle/siege and give them roster control (this means you have to be available at 1 point after the attack is initialised within the 24 hour period) (something like a check box next to their name in the current roster management)
3. You can request roster control when applying for a battle, if no one denies this request within 6 hours, you can control the roster (anyone with the current methods of roster control can provoke this at any point, even after it's been granted).
4. Add an option to auto select people until the roster is full (current auto add only adds people who signed up before anyone was accepted),
I think it should only be one individual, you can't select a faction to give roster control to, or multiple people.
I also think this option should only be available to defenders as you can currently prepare for this when attacking (ask someone to join you faction before attacking and give them a suitable rank). I think if someone joins your faction after the initial attack, they can't control the roster. Someone please correct me if this is wrong.
Thanks for reading, please vote and comment with any suggestions.
(As always, it would be great to hear from a Dev as to the possibility of this)