Well, I'm not pretending I will change those battles to be made on proper time, I'm only a player
so I calm myself thinking of "what good will come out of that bad". And I think its going to be good if 2 conditions are met : people dont just turtle in their shamefully flag captured castles/cities + noone does night battles against human-controlled fiefs.
I trust the "internet shame" to work just fine into stopping night battles becoming a "respectable option" when against humans.
Not so sure about the turtling: crime is a good tool, but it just mean that you set garrison fiefs to low prosperity - average/low price and keep buying the S&D every 2-3 days and you're fine. The 1800 wave function is still there and its very useful, but when the gear quality will be balanced between UIF - non-UIF, turtling will become a viable option again.
Frankly, the next step I'm impatient to behold, is UIF invading non-UIF properly garrisonned castles/cities and watch 2 things :
- whats the battletime they are aiming for ? (they have a pretty legit pretext to do night battles too, namely "vengeance" and "equal opportunity"
)
- whats the roster going to look like ? (lets hope both can perpetually sustain a 50v50 good quality roster, if not it will lead to some issues and tears)