Bear with me, a lot of this is just organized rambling about an idea I've had for awhile now about reworking the attack system here on lioden, while possibly giving submales another use at the same time (depending on how my rambling pans out).

Overview - For further explanation, see below.
- Selecting a user to attack in the territory tab could work like the pvp event battling.
- Submales "help" with attacking, gaining a small amount of stats/scars if attack is successful.
- A user being attacked would have warning, then "prepare" for the attack.
-Submales can "help" defend territory, gaining a small amount of stats/scars if defense is successful.

Attacking

Selecting a user to attack
This would look more or less the same as it does now, you go to the territory tab and select a user to attack, however the way users are presented in the territory tiles changes-- instead of users being listed by having logged the most recent rollover, it would instead work like the pvp event battling by listing users who are within your level that are currently online or have been within the last ten minutes. You will still be able to bookmark users to come back to for attacking.

Submales "help" attack
This part of the process also works about the same it does now, with one addition: you may select one submale to take with you when attacking. Bringing a submale with you does not increase your chances of winning, instead it gives the chance to award a small amount of stats to the submale, much like patrolling, or equip a scar decor to the submale, like sparring does.


A dropdown will appear under the reward selection, where you may select one submale. You may select any adult male you own, so long as they are not currently gone patrolling, much like you cannot nest females who are currently hunting (you are, however, able to select males that are on patrolling cooldowns). This is optional, not selecting anything will not prevent you from attacking.

An alert bar will appear once you've attacked the user.

Defending

Scouting an attack
In the PVP event, you're able to participate in battling by defending attacks. This feature would work much the same, when a user attacks you, an alert will pop up. One of your lions acted as a scout, spotting the incoming lions and rushing to warn you.


Defending an attack
You will have fifteen minutes to "defend," which will give you a larger defensive buff (as it currently stands, kings defending a territory already get a defensive buff, this just makes it a small portion larger). If you do not defend, you still get a buff, however it is not as large. You will be attacked regardless of what you choose to do.

Submales "help" defend
Much like submales helping in the attack, they serve as no actual buff and have a chance to be rewarded stats or scars if you successfully defend your territory. You may set one adult male to act as a defender (see image below), they will have a cooldown much like when assigning cubs to broodmothers/claiming lionesses in explore. How long is up for debate, as well if a defending lion is also allowed to be patrolled.


Winning/Losing a(n) attack/defense
Winning or losing when attacking will work as it does now, you'll receive an alert with the results and rewards.

Winning or losing when defending will also send an alert, though the rewards may vary from experience with a small skill increase or impression depending on if you win or lose.

Both texts will include rewards for submales if you win.

Things that still need to be worked out

I'm open for any discussion on this idea, and they will be included in a section for user input, though below is what I can't really work out:

- Submales that defend, should they be set apart and unable to be patrolled, much like broodmothers are unable to hunt?
- A cooldown should be imposed for setting/removing lions from defense, though how long it should be I don't know.
- Should submales always defend territory from attacks, regardless if the user chooses to defend?