[Discuss] cheating or just smart?

[Szymon Trapp]

On 16/04/2008, Matt Runyon <m.runyon at comcast.net> wrote:
> Jeff J. Wilson wrote:
>  > -----Original Message-----
>  > From: discuss-bounces at news.battlemaster.org
>  > [mailto:discuss-bounces at news.battlemaster.org] On Behalf Of Timothy Collett
>  > Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2008 4:38 PM
>  > To: BattleMaster general discussion list
>  > Subject: Re: [Discuss] cheating or just smart?
>  >
>  > The primary reason a strategic secession is an abuse is because of
>  > capital-only recruitment.  If you're seceding for reasons that have
>  > nothing to do with OOC-reason-imposed gameplay restrictions, I don't
>  > see any reason to call that abuse.
>  > ______________________________________
>  >
>  > But is breaking up a realm for the sole purpose of getting around a treaty
>  > believable role-play?  It sounds like power-gaming to me.
>  >
>  How is that power-gaming? Deceitful, yes. Evil, possibly. But it gets
>  around an IC treaty, not any game mechanics. Things like that happened
>  in real life, too. <wryly points to his own country financing puppet
>  states to fight communism, and to the Crusader states for more period
>  examples>
>

I also don't think it's power-gaming. That's just politcs, it's not
always nice, sometimes it gets really dirty. And you can deal with it
in game, by showing others how deceitfully this realm is behaving.