[Discuss] Activity (was: The state of the game)

[Gloria Santos]

On 7/10/06, Timothy Collett <danaris at mac.com> wrote:
>
> On Jul 10, 2006, at 4:00 PM, Gloria Santos wrote:
> > Why don't we as a community, for the sake of fair play, all
> > compromise not to write orders requiring late-turn movements?
>
> That's a great idea...
>
> But it's never going to happen.
>
> There are far too many people for whom the ability to get even a
> little edge over their characters' military opponents far outweighs
> the value of "playing nice."
>
> If we could get those people out of the game, then sure.  But until
> then, we have 3 choices that I see:
> 1) Use the same tricks as them
> 2) Find our own tricks (eg, getting a few extra allies to negate the
> advantage they gain)
> 3) Get used to losing wars
>
> Note that I'm including option 3 as a serious option: it's perfectly
> possible to have lots of fun RPing about the death of a realm.
> However, you have to be in the right mindset for it.
>
> And it really does get demoralizing when the side you're on *always*
> loses...and even more so when you know it's because you're doing
> things the "right" way, and not sinking to using "dirty tricks" like
> your enemy.
>
> Timothy Collett
> Anaris Family



Get used to losing wars?

Rancagua fell, Avamar fell, Oligarch fell, and now Riombara too... it seems
no matter which realm I put my character in, it'll end up destroyed.  :-(
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