In the past 24 hours I've thrown up twice, my girlfriend and I found out her grandmother is dying (she's very beloved), I got my first silence in my 5 years of playing, and I got a broken sword. People have bad days all the time, and I think broken sword should definitely make more sense. With about 7 days left in the event, missing 3 out of those 7 days makes me staying in the leaderboard damn near impossible. Of course, some of the things listed above have nothing to do with me missing war (I just threw up and fell asleep, waking up with the worst stomach ache I've ever had) but people definitely have legitimate reasons to miss war. Whether someone dies (or almost does) or they fall asleep, 3 days is a bit too much. If you fall asleep on the regular or make constant excuses you deserve to be punished. So I propose Broken Sword be given in Tiers: Tier 1- 1st time inactive, perhaps you overslept? Just don't do it again. 1 day broken sword Tier 2- 2nd time inactive, I really hope you're learning your lesson 2 day broken sword Tier 3- 3rd-5th time inactive 4 day broken sword Tier 4- 6th time inactive 7 day broken sword This could reset every season (or not) and make sure people who are regularly inactive are truly punished. Or perhaps tier 1 is no punishment and you get some leniency that one time and it jumps straight to 3 days and increases from there. Thoughts? Concerns?
Hope you feel better soon. Send your girlfriend my condolences... as weird as that would be. It's a hard time for anyone. The war event is bogus anyway. I don't know how they expected people to be competitive in the PVP weekends and wars. Plus top 100 isn't very much. I could only do maybe 1 war a day and so fell so far behind as to become impossible to catch up. The commitment to KaW that the war event requires is ridiculous.
Give your mage a call. If he/she can enchant equipment, they should definitely be able to mend a broken sword. I propose throwing in a few aqua and inferno for removing broken sword !
If you're sick, probably best you didn't sign up. If you almost dying, don't think you're able enough to sign up. If you almost died (in an accident of some sort) that's an actual valid reason, but email them proof, but I think you're either in the hospital for longer than the broken sword lasts, probably longer than event, or KaW should be the least of your worries at that moment. Broken sword is 3 days for a reason. You being inactive doesn't just affect you. It affects your whole roster. Say you had a top 10 in your roster. Last day of event tries for war to stay #10. You're inactive and they lose, and he falls off of top 10. Plus lost Estoc edge. Plus probably wants to farm you now. No support. Can't war? Under the weather? Feeling a bid sad? Don't sign up.
This wasnt expected at all though, and that's just an example (and a really bad one) things happen, broken sword shouldn't last 3 days. Event or not, not being able to war makes kaw not fun for 3 days.