[Discuss] War Island Change

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gagnonm at ijet.com wrote:
> [Matthew Gagnon] The main problem is that a few players on the island control most of the power, and they don't want to lose it, so they are actually actively trying NOT to destabalize the realm and fight another.  
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> On top of that, as I said, people seem to be playing the island like it is an XBox 360 game or something, and the whole point is to "win" the island, so they entangle themselves in all this political crap - treaties, negotiations... I was just told to change the name of my unit so as to "not offend" an enemy realm and jeapordize the negotiations with that realm.
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> The entire thing is absurd, and completely not fun anymore.  The same 3-4 people hold everything up and have made the island into a very boring place where only light skirmish battles are ever fought.
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> Sure, making it only two realms would work, but its so much more interesting RP wise to have 4-5-6-7 realms.  If we could find a way to simply make diplomacy impossible that would be the best way, that way these conservative obstructionist players who are holding EVERYTHING up can't stop wars being fought on the war island.
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> It really is absurd.  Its been well over two months since my unit actually faced a real battle... its probably been even longer than that actually.  I understand some down time, but this is just outrageous.  
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Can't remember if I said this earlier.. but essentially in the same vein.

Another way to look at things is that it's not so much about winning. 
But not losing. Remember the (recent?) history of the island. Someone 
will get ganged up upon. If you make a decent treaty, that won't be you! 
(until they changed their mind and hit you anyway)

Problem with not wanting to lose is that...  you aim to minimise your 
losses in battle thus you try not to fight battles that you probably 
will lose.. so less and less battles as the other side isn't going to 
give you easy wins either.

Would be funny if every realm on the island has identical income 
regardless of region possession and income is spread equally between all 
characters in the realm. Would that encourage more risk taking by small 
realms? - building works to be funded separately via region treasury not 
linked to characters.