[Discuss] Friendly secessions

[Dorian Gray]

On 6/3/07, Tom Vogt <tom at lemuria.org> wrote:
>
> Dorian Gray schrieb:
> > On 5/30/07, *Gloria Santos* <gloria.santos at gmail.com
> > <mailto:gloria.santos at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     Well, it is not cheesy.  It is not a secret that it was a friendly
> >     secession.  They have been discussing and announcing that would be
> >     their intention all along, and no one has been against it.
> >
> >
> > It was only a friendly secession because currently the game makes
> > creating colonies too difficult. If the option had ever arisen, the
> > realm would have been made as a colony some months ago.
>
> Anyone stopped to think that if the game makes something difficult there
> just _might_ be a reason?
>
>
> Circumventing game restrictions is the _definition_ of cheating, you do
> realize that?


If circumventing game restrictions is the only way to accomplish something
(like a colony/new realm outside of hostile secession likely resulting in
war and death of the new realm), where there's not a sold basis for the
restriction, you're either going to suffer people doing so (such as friendly
secessions) and make otherwise good and honest players cheaters, or make
worse another problem (super-sized, permenant realms with no political
variance due to inability to create new realms without them being wiped out
by necessity).
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