So, with the new changes coming to the tankiness of structures in node wars, and the more than likely impact that these will have on the outcome of nodes with multiple forts placed on them, i've had a couple ideas that I've pitched to my alliance and now here, that could fix the annoying situation of spending 2 hours on a node that in the end goes to no one because there are 7 forts on the node and a 2 hour time limit. So anyway:

1. Simple fix that doesn't require much "fixing" - Allocate a time frame of, let's say 30 minutes, per fort placed on the node, while keeping the 2 hour time limit as a base time limit. Therefore that would mean that on nodes that have 4 or less forts placed on them, the node war would be just like now, with no changes. 

Now on nodes with 5 or more forts placed, simply extend the time limit for that specific node by 30 minutes for every extra fort above 4. So for a node with 6 forts placed, the node war would last a maximum of 3 hours, instead of the current 2 hours.

Now the second idea that I had, which would require more work from PA.

2. Limit fort placements on nodes to a maximum of 4, whilst maintaining the 2 hour time limit (to correlate with the 30 mins/fort time frame from the first idea).

Now to do this, while allowing everyone that wants to place a fort to place it, PA could do the following:

- Increase the number of nodes for each tier or increase a specific number of nodes for each specific tier, which PA can calculate based on their data on attendance and placement numbers from node wars. (basically, if more guilds/alliances place on tier 4 than on tier 1, give tier 4 more extra nodes than tier 1, etc)

- Change the schedule to something along these lines (maybe):

     - Monday - Free (like it already is now)

     - Tuesday to Friday - on each day have all the nodes from a specific tier only, or all the nodes from 2 specific tiers only (like tuesday have only tier 1 nodes, wednesday only tier 2s, etc or have tuesdays tier 1s and 4s, wednesdays tier 2s and 3s, etc)

     - Saturday - Siege, cuz duh

     - Sunday - Have all the nodes from all tiers available, as usually the most amount of people playing bdo is on the weekends, so that is likely to have the biggest amount of node war forts placed, therefore offer the player base the entire map to choose from.

tl;dr - an extra 30 mins per fort on nodes with more than 4 forts placed OR limit nodes to 4 forts only, but give us more nodes.