Erev

Pinning does more than beiging does is part of the problem but you are right that PnW is set up to make it so that folks are never entirely helpless - especially those with large city counts that can afford to throw soldiers endlessly. You are also right that there needs to be a mechanic that pulls folks out of the war. The trouble is that the only ways I could think of doing this would require rather large changes to the game, lots of tracking, and would impede the ability of midwar political maneuvering.

I rather doubt that but this war has proven that the system is still broken. The only reason the war continues is spite, distrust, and poor diplomacy really. Both sides just have leaders and diplomats too prideful to move on (for good reason or not). Edit: Specifically doubt that the war would be over and folks would have moved on.

The trouble is that keeping people pinned is part of the win condition - that's simply how this sort of game goes. Certainly not the pinning itself but removing the will to keep fighting and opening negotiations. This can be seen in any number of PvP games. If it seems like the current war has dragged on forever imagine what it would be like if everyone was back on their feet two days after each and every lost war. There would be no winning or losing there would be, at best, exhaustion.

I mean there was The Originals which declared on Goons and then promptly all went into vacation mode minus the inactives.

Look, you had at least an hour and a half. We're busy people!

It was literally me raiding a couple of them because they looked juicy and were within raiding tolerances. I think they screwed up and added Goon Squad due to the name and now Goon Squad is also attacking.

I was mostly bored of babysitting dead nations in the big war. I had a couple open slots and found like seven juicy targets. I wasn't going to deprive myself of a bit of fighting and looting. The mass vacationing is disappointing - I guess I'll just have to come back in a couple weeks to three months.