[Discuss] Abusing game logic - Starving tens of thousands to death?!?!

[James]

Siang Hong wrote:
> Recently I have notice that at least one realm is trying to starve a 
> city of about 50,000 population to death to win a battle the easy way. 
> This is the second time this realm is doing this. The ruler of the 
> realm had even suggested to let a enemy regions go rogue so that when 
> it is recaptured it will be easier to control.
>
> Now, I view all this as abuse to the limitations of the game logic.
>
> I think thus far, about 10 over thousand citizens died in the said 
> region. If this were to happen realistically, I think the citizens of 
> the region would either overthrow their current government and 
> surrender or they would come together and fight the invaders with a 
> vengeance.
>
> 10,000 starved to death, I assume mostly children, infants and 
> elderly. How can they just sit idle and let themselves or their 
> friends, family and love ones starved to death? It would be more 
> logical that the 15,000 of the remaining citizen would somehow join 
> the army and fight for their survival.
>
> Worst part of this is,  if this crazy plan worked, how can the 
> citizens accept the governance of a realm that have starved their kins 
> to death?
The numbers reported as the region population are all adult males (at 
least my take from all previous discussions on the matter).  Starving a 
city into submission was probably a tactic that was really used at the 
times, however, yes, it would cause a lot of resentment for the 
population (in real life).  However, I don't see an alternative.


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