I agree, it's why I'm hesitant with a coastal node but the majority wants it so I'm looking into it during the alphas and betas
I don't think its going to be that bad since we will need a fleet but so will the enemy, and we are a larger guild considering the game hasn't even released yet. I don't even think anyone's going to be able to make any battle prepared ships or at least enough for siege in any prerelease test besides alpha 2 since from what I gather most tests besides alpha 2 are going to be a few months. And not many people have alpha 2 so fully manned war ships will probably be pretty rare even months into alpha 2. And by the time the game releases we will have a clearer picture of coastal sieges. Basically I'm saying we should probably build coastal in the alphas and we probably wont have to deal with a coastal siege, but we will see what they are like from videos and inference then we can make a more informed decision.