It is very much required at times and I'm glad that goober has some oversight in managing digs, what's the harm in cancelling digs or rescheduling them to have a better shot at more players being present? There are times when battles are dug too close and are mutually destructive to both battles as players get split, it's always good if there is space between these digs through goober so both battles have healthier numbers
What prejudice does this oversight cause anybody? How is this something the players have to keep up with, these changes are usually made within the first hour or so of the battle being dug, is 15+ hours not enough to keep up with changes?
IF they were within the first hour, sure. But from my perspective, this is not the case. I've found it about 50-50, if not lower, for altered battles not receiving a proper saloon announcement, let alone a standing record here for what changes were made.
So, by my statement, keeping up with it, is something like this: log in.. see battle overview. Find ones that are suitable for my time zones and mark which ones I can attend. Come back and see that has changed. Sometimes a battle moved out 60hr, sometimes moved back 3hr, etc. etc. More digs are made for the following day, more scheduling changes made (all still within 24 hours) and the points of confusion amplify. Now, it comes time to actually attend those battles. Why else for all the effort, but to put them at proper time slots, right? Oh, guess not. They've been re-altered and the battle is soon to occur. Quick check saloon and see there is no notice concerning them and so cancel job queue and quickly travel to fort. Although, despite being signed up, now I am not permitted to join and it's pretty disappointing to clear a job queue and travel to the fort for this sort of outcome.
CO never had to deal with an evolving and shifting battle overview like this. It's overdone and over-exercised. There have been plenty of
screw up the schedule type digs and we simply acknowledged them and moved on. Sometimes they can even be attended and a little fun had with it. This
oops, sorry wrong time, let me cancel that and move it around the overview response is detracting from the game module that most of us long-timers are used to. Perhaps your existence in that specific world leads you to feel differently, but not for me and the 12 years of accountability I discern from.