How often will a node be sieged? (Warning: Includes math)

daveywavey

McMackMuck wrote: »

Remember the friendly node competition rules: no gouging unless it's to the eyes, no elbows unless it's to the throat, no knees unless it's to the groin....

Fight to win, or Fight to lose. Anything goes!

Noaani

overfitneuralnet wrote: »

Nodes don't declare sieges. Guilds do:
https://www.ashes101.com/nodesieges.php

Out of pure curiosity, can you quote the part of this article that says guilds declare sieges for me?

daveywavey

From the wiki:
"Node sieges are declared directly by any player[1] who completes the prerequisites for the siege initiation.[2] Sieges are started via a siege scroll, which is acquired through a quest that scales in difficulty with respect to the level of the node. A substantial investment is required to attain the siege scroll.[3][4][5]"
https://ashesofcreation.wiki/Node_siege_declaration

Nerror

overfitneuralnet wrote: »

Nerror wrote: »

Percimes wrote: »

Nerror wrote: »

daveywavey wrote: »

I wonder what's to stop a node from faking a siege every so often just to gain the after-protection. The "Daveyland" Metropolis gets its alt characters to declare a siege, lose, and Daveyland gets 50 days of protection!

Getting the siege scroll is a massive undertaking in and of itself. It will require a lot of work at the behest of the citizens of that node if they want to pull that trick.

But that "massive" undertaking depend on the stage of the node. So a siege on a small backwater place initiated by an organization with a large number of people may not be as massive an undertaking as we think.

Big guy smashing small flies may make sieges more common and far less fun than we think. Squash them early and squash them often for dominance.

Yes, getting the resources to squash a village should be a fairly easy task for a metropolis sized opponent, no doubt. Unless the king of the region rallies the troops and defends that village. Or if the parent town and their parent city and their parent metropolis does the same, because they all benefit from that village in the end, and are weakened by the enemy taking out the lower tier vassals.

Diplomacy and politics could be huge in this game

Nodes don't declare sieges. Guilds do:
https://www.ashes101.com/nodesieges.php
How can you stop people from declaring on their own node?
Simple, Guilds do not control who can join a Node Siege. Unlike a Siege Declaration Flag which can only be dropped by the Guild leader, and then that Guild Leader has to authorize people to participate in the siege; the moment you drop a declaration flag on a Node it becomes open season for anyone to register as an attacker and try to siege the Node.

However, there are node wars, but they are a different thing:
https://www.ashes101.com/nodewars.php

Yeah any player can declare a node siege as @daveywavey said. I think you are mixing castle and node sieges a little here. But you are quite right that anyone not a citizen or allied to the node can show up and register to attack without needing approval.

Sieging will require a similar amount of resources and time to what it took to develop the node being sieged.

I hope that getting the siege scroll in and of itself requires the majority of those resources, and that players can't just cheese it and "only" need 50% of the resources it took for the target node to develop, with the other 50% meant to go to siege equipment. I think assembling the siege scroll should magically include all the siege weapons necessary too.

Dygz

That Ashes101 FAQ and answer seem a bit strange anyway. The answer doesn't quite fit the question.

Better to use the wiki to double-check the sources.