A proposition to end drastically unbalanced wars early.
Currently wars can be declared at at range of 50-200% (a factor of 2, smaller or larger). I propose that if two nations fall out of the range of 25-400% (a factor of 4) that the war declaration should be dropped immediately. This prevents a much larger nation from pounding the snot out of a smaller nation for an extended period of time when they can't even get to 5% odds.
Pros:
Ends unbalanced wars earlier.
Allows nations to disengage from a target that has turtled and quit. (Could be the answer to shorter war duration.)
Preserves the NS of nations that get hammered.
May reduce the practice of selling off to zero soldiers.
Tech raids may end earlier, good for the target.
Cons:
Nations could sell off assets/military to lower NS to escape war. (May not be a con. Isn't that the purpose of war? Make them weaker.)(Stinks for tech raiding.)
Tech raids may end earlier than attacker likes.
Options:
Instead of immediately dropping state of war, check all wars at update time. (Probably easier to handle for coding.)
Instead of immediately dropping state of war, check all wars every 24 hours after declaration. (Allows update attacks no matter what happens.)
Other strength range. Factor of 3? 5?
