[Discuss] Beluaterra's unending Daimon invasion.

[Robert Croson, Jr]

On 25 Jun 2008 at 13:40, Anthony Cerqueira wrote:

> On 6/25/08, Timothy Collett <danaris at mac.com> wrote:

> > Personally, I'm kind of in the middle here.  I really enjoy the
> invasion, > but I absolutely *hate* the way information has been
> dripped and drizzled > out where we're theoretically supposed to be
> able to pick it all up and put > it together to do *something*, but no
> one can even find out what that > *something* is with any degree of
> certainty.  If they want to give us > puzzles to solve, that's fine,
> but don't make the pieces keep changing shape > with malicious little
> giggles--and half the pieces scattered across the > continent to people
> who may not even know they *have* a piece, or if they > do, have no
> interest in giving it to anyone else. 
> 
> I'd say we're basically on the same page, wonder how many others are
> likewise?

I would venture to say that a LOT of people are in the same boat.

I've been a ruler on BT throughout the entire invasion. I have no clue what's 
going on currently with the daimons. I would like to know. There have been 
several coalitions of rulers and realms that have hoarded information and 
attempted to use it for their own ends. Many, many rulers were suspicious that 
everyone else was siding with the daimons, and as such refused to share any of 
their information with some other rulers. It didn't help that some of the rulers 
that vocally were against the daimons were some of the rulers that were 
actually using daimons as shock troops to wipe out their ancestral enemies, or 
federated/allied to those realms.

Changes in rulers over the course of the invasion also lost lots of information, I 
think. I can't even count the number of times a new ruler came to the ruler's 
channel on BT and said something like "Hi, I'm new here, can someone tell me 
everything that's been happening witht he invasion? I really don't know 
anything because XXXX never told us/I wasn't paying attention." So there goes 
an entire realm's worth of people that have no idea what the invasion was all 
about.

And then you have the rulers on BT who told the other rulers one thing, and 
told their realm something else entirely. Then that ruler dies/quits and the 
people in the realm suddenly find out that everything they've been told is false.

If part of the plot idea for the invasion was to sow confusion and distrust 
amongst the anti-daimon realms, then that part, at least, succeeded. In spades.

Personally, I think the clues needed to be more frequent and more blatant.


-- 
Rob

Appreciate me now, and avoid the rush.




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