Nov 26th 2011, 0:12:18
I don't really think this change will substantially affect warchat times. Yes it will take a few extra minutes to get a kill, but the change only affects the time in a warchat that you actually spend killing something. If you're in a warchat right now or after the change for more than an hour it isn't because of the time it takes to hit, it's because of the time your leaders are taking to get a target set up and keeping things flowing.
It WILL affect how successful your warchats are as more people will be able to wall, thus wars themselves will last longer not your individual chats.
If this change were to be introduced into FFA where alliances are comprised of hundreds of countries, then you're looking at considerably longer warchats. But in alliance we're looking at ~60 countries per alliance, so even increasing the amount of time between hits to 3 seconds won't make your chats last "2 hours" unless your leaders are waiting 20 minutes between each kill...
The only really negative side effect of this change as I see it is that smaller alliances will find it much harder to get kills due to less members in on each kill combined with mandatory slower hitting.
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