[Discuss] If the game mechanics say we're at war, shouldn't we *really* be at war?

[Josiah Allen]

On 10/22/06, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > So, the bug is finally fixed and Arcachon declares war on Ethiala and
> > Sartania.   What bothers me, though, is that as soon as the message is
> > delivered, people interfere to say it's not a real war.  Shouldn't it be
> a
> > real war, as game mechanics state it is so?
>
> That's a very real issue. When a federation breaks down, it's meant to
> result in war, but the diplomatic relations page saying "War" and the
> realms actually fighting a war are very different things.
>
> The only suggestion I have is to make the peasents fight the war even
> if the noblemen don't bother - so you get random peasent uprisings
> that go across the border and fight.
>
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People need to think of it like the confederate secession.  A federation is
in effect one huge realm, and a part of it just split off.  It should be
reacted to with the same rage one has when a duchy splits off from a realm,
unless I suppose the federation agreed to it beforehand.

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