[Discuss] Beluaterra's unending Daimon invasion.

[Robert Croson, Jr]

On 25 Jun 2008 at 0:30, Anthony Cerqueira wrote:

> It has long been pointed out that fighting the daimons serves no use
> and to defeat them one needs to use not their sword arm, but their
> mind.

That may sound good from an insider perspective, if you know what the real 
method of defeating them is. But from here in the  trenches, we have no idea 
what that real method is. We tried the "move all the food out" trick. That 
worked for a while. Then they just started eating the peasants. We tried not 
fighting them, but they just looted everything, preached daimon worship 
everywhere, sent invincible assassins against us, and started driving cities rogue 
through constant looting.

We played Daimon-Portal-Whack-a-Mole for a while. They just kept getting 
reopened without any warning (or, seemingly, any logic either).

But from a player perspective, fighting the daimons to kill the soldiers had the 
emminently practical purpose of getting them the heck out of our regions. What 
would you rather do: let them roam, maraud, loot, and drive all your regions 
rogue while your cities starved, or kill them now and (hopefully) let someone 
else deal with a (possibly) more powerful daimon army later?

The fact is that many realms *had* to fight the daimons, and do it *now*. No 
one knew any other way to get rid of them short of letting them eat all of your 
peasants, and hopefully they'll move on before destroying your realm. And if 
anyone did know, they sure as heck weren't sharing the info.

> That's why there's someone behind the inhumans rather then just
> letting the engine spawn critters randomly, so we can interact. The
> fact people keep charging head long into the fight, or try to use the
> daimons as swords for hire on their enemies, instead of thinking is
> the reason we're still doing this.

Again, no one knows what else to do. We've heard many times that "you can't 
fight them, you need to think". Well, we've tried that. Apparently we players 
simply aren't good enough thinkers.

I've been a ruler for the entire invasion, and I have no clue what's going on. It's 
not because I didn't pay attention, either. I did. I tried talking to various people 
about. Everyone is hoarding information, lying, or just doesn't realize that what 
they know is important.


-- 
Rob

Cluelessness - There are no stupid questions,
but there are a LOT of inquisitive idiots.




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