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

[Vinnie]

2006/7/10, Timothy Collett <danaris at mac.com>:
>
> 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.
>

I don't get it. This is one of those things that have existed for years.
Misdirect severely limited it. It's hardly a problem, it's been around for
ages and now we can't have it happen anymore? All code solution's bad sides
will outweight the benefit.

Late-turn movements won't do that much damage. They usually get applied by
small looting groups of people who are generally around around turnchange.
They won't kill your realm. It's a looting group, it's only to be expected
you can't just scout to get their complete movement. Track them down and
destroy them. It's fun.

And you can set them up yourself. It's not an OOC benefit, every realm has
players that log in around turnchange. Make your own group of looters out of
them. That's not an OOC advantage. It's not like you have to do it, it's
just that every realm can do it. No one really benefits. No one really gets
hurts. Everyone still logs in when they want. What *is* the problem?
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