(06-21-2020, 12:08 PM)chance Wrote: i think you're either purposely ignoring or forgetting important details, such as individual character motivations and the chain of events. i'm not going to go over every point but the war begun with osrona declaring that they'd conquer theria/slay garljing, and it continued to escalate from there. the first 2v1 was myll/osrona vs theria, and you personally worked to make peace with ilburg along with myll, to avoid a 2v2... despite your original terms being 'theria needs to break up with ilburg'. then occultists, then witches
...which is fine, but don't act like you're on some kind of pedestal when you clearly tried your best to win (ICly). which is also okay?
the mistake osrona probably made was pulling out before it was all over, and initiating a ceasefire that to many seemed somewhat random. you had your opportunity to remove theria from the picture and lost it, despite clearly trying very hard to do so to begin with by working with every single faction in the game
so, characters and nations can react to circumstance. if theria wants to form a temporary alliance with myllenoris because they had been speaking behind the scenes before the war even begun-- while the newly anointed alexander was purposely ignoring theria's calls-- that's okay, and it's what happened. there's an element of politics to the game and to say that "no war should ever be more than a 1v1" is a poor solution to imo
idk a lot of what you're saying just seems ignorant or so off the ball to me that it's difficult to address. i'd say you need to reevaluate the story and what occurred before making those kinds of claims
hmmm. u are right. ill edit my post down cos it does come off across as belligerent and ignorant/grandstanding. detracting from the main intent. and yes, the ic was muddled, im not oblivious to such but the start of the war was made by serea not alexander and the war lasted a long time oocly, so ic changed fast every day, hence where confusion lied. as soon as the war was waged by serea, a raid thread should have been put up. instead there was a delay, several radiant promotions, etc.
it did pinball from terms, potential peace with theria after the bridge to removing the occultists/witches because they owned up to that ic. also the first 2v1 was more a 2v2 if I remember right, since ilburg matched up with Theria.
but i wasnt aware the backseat dealings of theria/myllenoris.
in the end, looking at it openly with what u said. i can see how things developed naturally/make more sense. but as i said my working with the other factions in game, was a mistake imo.
im also not rly saying this because im mad/bothered that osrona lost to 4 factions or anything. the ic of the story was cool, as is the ending. and its fair that characters can respond to such and have their own motivations, much like mine did. in the end my point is i think that cities should be encouraged to be more independent. but i can see the merit of ic politics as u said.
edit: oh saw ur addition. yh that makes sense and i do agree. the game obviously cant go 100% all the time.