[Discuss] delayed scouts active

[Thor Stroobants]

  What's the purpose: The real-time scouting gives advantages to people 
  who can log in multiple times. If you can scout only once, you get a 
  snapshot, and have to decide based on that. If you can scout every hour 
  or two, you see what the enemy is doing and can base your decision on 
  much more information. You can see his army moving out one by one, you 
  can see the status changes. You can decide based on that right before 
  the turn whether or not it's a misdirection and react accordingly.

  With delayed scouts, you get information at the turn. It's one turn old, 
  but it's the only thing you have. You act based on that, and the people 
  in your army have all turn to set their movements, line settings, 
  whatever. There's no advantage in waiting for a few hours. Thus there is 
  no incentive to order people to log in late, or log in again, or 
  anything else of that kind.

Your story goes only up when you see that realm as a group of late-loggers.

Since most realms are mixed : morning-turn-people and evening-turn people you can't expect they would react all an hour before turn change.

Orders are given in the first two hours of the turn and rarely changed.

It is true a late-turn scouting gives you info on what's likely going to happen but it is too late to change orders in your realm and thus not a problem.

Pratical info :

I'm a Gen on BT and I just lost a battle that I swear, I did not saw it comming. Nor did anyone else warned me of my error in scouting.
Now in prison I can not look at scoutings to see what went wrong. I hope I can come up with details.

For now my feeling says I hate the delays, I just hope I don't stand alone in this. 
Can't we have a voting on this ? It doesn't have to be majority who "wins" but I think more then the majority is against it.

Disclaimer : I play the game fair, I'll remain a fun-player and if you say green I'll follow it. But this is a disussion...so I hope nobody loses itself in "Tom can do whatever he wants be gratefull"
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