Being on time has nothing to do with being assigned. Assignments are done before the fighting starts using battle planning during the Join stage of the icon. Only the players that have joined can be assigned to a city.
There appear to be two threads discussing the same thing. For a more detail answer of how it works (at least in server 7) see http://bbs.tynon.com/showthread.php?...ll=1#post23496



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