Thread:JosephHawk/@comment-10809075-20130715041953/@comment-10809075-20130717044403

I do hear your assertion regarding the pain of accidentally starting a job in an occupied structure. I'm suffering through a 5 day wait on my Vehicle Factory as I write this due to starting a job not realizing it was occupied. But I consider that my fault. If I didn't want it occupied, I would have put my vehicle factory in a zone protected by defenses, which says "Don't occupy me."

What really got my attention initially was the assertion "If you raid me without asking, I will kill you with extreme brutality", which seems unnecessary. That's what made me even ask my question. I thought maybe I was missing something.

The last piece is in regard to the assertion that in higher levels you need more than two troopers to occupy, which near as I can tell isn't true. I'm level 45, and I occupy 55+ lands with two troopers in every case, and everyone occupies my land with two troopers in every case.

Those of us that know the rules of the game put our occupiable structures outside of the defensive zones, and the non-occupiable stuff in defensive zones. We know to never occupy tier 1 without direct permission for obvious reasons, and to occupy tier 2 stuff at our own risk of getting killed off if the land owner wants to start a job. As the PvP page suggests, people who fail to follow the rules are generally unaware, and I try to educate the newbies, and just unfriend people that fail to comply.

To me, it just seems more efficient to be able to occupy as needed without having to incur the overhead of waiting for advance permission before waiting for the 4 hour expiration. I expect the people in my circle to know the rules of the game and follow the required courtesy the game requires. Basically if it doesn't affect me, I don't bother them. If it affects me, I deal with it, and if I need to educate, I do, and if I need to unfriend, I do.

I didn't intend to aggravate Joe. The strength of his assertions caused me to question why, as I thought I may have been missing something.