Dawn of Fantasy MMORTS coming in June

@Aberhams

That's always a pretty big concern in this sort of game, but I'm not sure there's an actual honest answer/fix for the problem.

As for the game itself: Man! I thought this had, for lack of a crasser evocative, died in the womb a year or two ago. I remember being interested, going back the next day to sign up for beta, and the site vanishing into thin interwebs.

Huh. Here goes nothing.

@Orvi

I would assume they would make some sort of system to establish the power of a certain kingdom and deny them from being able to attack kingdoms that are x amount weaker than them.

Thats just my guess at least.

@Rindon

That's generally how it's done. They give you a XX hours or XX days grace period, and then the older players in your vicinity can jump all over you. It's a rather problematic idea, to say the least.

@Saker

yeah, the only game i've seen crack that nut is Neptune's Fury. it isn't an MMO, but its an online sci-fi real time strategy game where the object is to conquer the universe and games can last months, so it is something of a persistent world. they solved the problem by stretching out the timeline so that its entirely feasible to give you to order your fleets to jump and then go to work for 8 hours, come home just in time for the battle. it sounds odd, but it actually works really well and has given me many many sleepless nights as i set my alarm based on when my or my enemies fleets will arrive in a star system.

thats one solution, but i don't think that is the sort of thing DoF is going for since the Neptune's Pride model is something that can hold up just fine with 15 minutes a day of play time, where-as more MMOs want their customers to spend a bit more time (and thus money) on their games.

another solution could be to allow AI garrisons to defend when the player is offline. some sort of guard captain or something for the sake of lore who takes command when the king is away. he wont be as good at it as the king, but he might be able to hold off the barbarians till his master returns.