you have 1 minute maximum to get all your stuff out since the opponent clicks attack the second the battle is over, sometimes less... Happened to me during the dashbigha siege recently, i was gonna take everything out but site crashed and they managed to click attack before i could reload the page and take it out. gg?
Yes, but you have an essentially guaranteed opportunity. A more clever individual would have alt tabbed as the battle was winding down and been wildly refreshing their browser. You then have a full minute to take the gear out before it processes the next tick. Perhaps it should be argued that there should be a 5 minute window before another attack can be made. HOWEVER, you should not draw parallels to this situation and the one in the desert.
Everyone seems to forget that in the Battles for Ahmerrad,
we teleported Smoothrich not once but twice at great expense to us the second time. We sacrificed two large armies intercepting reinforcements to guarantee we would win our battle in the field.
By saying what we did was an illegal maneuver is to say that we MUST play Strategus like the EU players. They march into battle with roughly 30 item types. Don't like their selection of 1 or 2 items per category? Too bad. Want to use a 4W pole arm? TOO BAD, you only get long spears. You are saying we MUST sell any equipment we accumulate through winning battles, despite it being an economically poor decision. You have to remember that if we are on a campaign, we can't sell equipment in our own fiefs. Transporting it long distances back home is a waste of time and therefore gold. But selling it in enemy territory only serves to strengthen the enemy monetarily through taxes. Meanwhile, the devs grant us no ability to flat out delete items from our inventory. Additionally, who wants to take multiple hours to weed through the equipment? Someone who mercs for me might actually use an item I would otherwise not keep in my inventory, I have no reason to stop them.
For the devs to not punish the illegal fief transfer is to say that anyone may challenge the developers' rules and roll the dice. Perhaps they are friendly enough with certain admins or devs and will dodge the bullet, but then the next person to do the same thing, who doesn't have such connections will receive punishment. It is also a further call for the rules to be looked at more closely. The fief transfer rule is fairly clearly outlined, as is the item bombing rule. It states that item bombing is illegal which is a direct transfer of items to an enemy party or fief. No where does it say attacking 5 times with somewhat different gear, again accumulated through battles and not sold due to inconveniences AND while the fief owner is absent, to the point of inconvenience is illegal. The outlying rules of the game demand you attack in waves if you want to be successful, mostly due to time constraints and Smoothrich was stupid enough to get teleported
TWICE. We are players who use mechanics within our means, we, ourselves can't create new ones, despite how many times they have been asked for. Everything we have done was well within the rules as they are currently written.
And again, to drive the point home
the fief owner was not present at all during the entire campaign in the desert.
