[Discuss] Powergaming

[Julian Bailey]

On 2/15/08, Dorian Gray <portrait.of.dorian.gray at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Back to the whole preventing massive alliances thing...
>
> 1) Make it so that you can only ally when at war. You don't need allies
> when you're not fighting anyone, do you? But as soon as war comes around
> you'll want a few friends with big armies, and that's when you start
> throwing alliance status around.
>
> 2) Abolish diplomatic relations altogether. If you want to attack a realm,
> you enter one of their regions on aggressive and start a TO or loot. If you
> want to support a realm, enter another of said regions on aggressive. This
> might mean there might be 'friendly fighting' casualties? Good, might end
> the 'mass all troops at X and march to Y for epic win' that's the reason for
> the new army system.
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I don't think we need to abolish them all together, though #2 is an
intriguing idea. I really like #1 though, it's true, you don't need
alliances when not at war and it would be more like the system I am familier
with from fantasy novels (EG. King is not 100% who will show up and how many
they might bring, and there's always some disloyal vassal who either doesn't
show up, joins the enemy, or is late and usualy get's beaten up during or
afterwards. It's a lot more interesting then the what happens now and would
bring more treachery and diplomacy. (well, hopefully))
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