[Discuss] Battlemaster is not funny anymore

[Jeremy Stephens]

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Subject: [Discuss] Battlemaster is not funny anymore
 
I started playing battlemaster a long time ago. I remember in EC the war
between Sirion, Fontan and Old Rancagua against Rancagua, Avamar, Oligarch
and Perdan. I remember the big war in Atamara with very huge battles between
CE, Tara, Talerium and Darka against Carelia, Red Span and Abington. I
remember these days, when I used to set my alarm clock at 6.a.m. only to see
the result of a battle and the turn change and then go to bed again.
However, these days ended long time ago, EC and Atamara started to become
boring long time ago so I decided to move two of my 4 characters to
Beluaterra. The fun started again, secessions, wars, broken federations, new
alliances, rebellions... But then, the invasion ruined the fun. At the
beginning I though it could be interesting but now I think that even the
long peace in EC was even more funny. A long, long, long invasion, with
enemies that are almost indestructibles and with game masters that can ruin
a realm because they want in only one turn. It does not matter that you plan
an attack to your enemy; you close the portals near your realm, you set your
defenses, you coordinate with your allies, you strike your enemy and you
win. What happens next? The game master (the enemy you recently attacked)
says: You fool, my brothers have opened a new portal behind you and are
gonna kill your realm and I am going to resurrect the Daimons you just
killed. And that is what happens. The Daimons you just killed resurrect and
a new Daimon army appears behind you two turns away from your capital with
an invincible force heading to your capital. Funny? I don't think so. Why I
should play a game with game masters that change the rules and modify the
flow of the game only for they fun?

Battlemaster used to be a funny game, I used to donate so I could have one
plus character but now I think that I will even delete my account.

P.S: I am not crying because my realm is going to be destroyed by the
Daimons. I have lost many other realms and I have roleplayed it and enjoyed
it. I had a character in Avamar that moved to Oligarch and then to Perdan so
I have lost many realms and wars and, believe me, I enjoyed a lot these
times in EC.

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I had 5 characters.  Yesterday I deleted one of them.  Today I paused three of them and at this point I've kept only my adventurer active.  Lots of reasons I suppose but mostly the frustrations in the colonies created by coding changes.  I have spoken my thoughts and concerns and don't feel they are being addressed and so aside from deleting the account this was my last option to present my opinion.  So, in short, I agree with you but strangely for completely different reasons. *shrugging*  Oh well, it's not my social experiment and I've contributed as much time as I will give to the game at this point so I'll just putter with my advy and hope things change.
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