When I logged on last night I noted at least one player attacking the rook bases. He (or she, as the case might be) was a new face, and, to his/her credit, stopped when warned. But the incident reminded me that we have lots of people playing here now who aren't familiar with the AvA. Hence this warning:
Unlike the Main Arenas, capturing all of one side's bases does NOT win a war and does NOT produce a map reset. Instead it completely porks the arena, which will be unusable in its intended way until one of the staff shows up to reload the appropriate tables. So please do not attempt to capture all of one side's bases.
If you see someone doing this, please warn him/her in a nice way (at first). It's understandable that new folks will expect the arena to behave as the other arenas behave. Until they know better.
- oldman
