They feel he's exploited a poorly designed game mechanic that made this takeover too easy.
I personally feel like the elders may have been a little careless in letting Enoch become Regent. Not in the sense that there was any evidence to link him to Jonsu but simply in the sense that he was kind of a quiet do nothing character. At that time the church was still pretty moderate and I was a less popular choice as a hardline zealot. They actually nullified the elections and started them again when I would have won. They were probably concerned that I was going to shake things up, sick our priests on Niselur and hurt the faith, so they went with the quiet guy. It's hard to say that the people who put a guy they knew nothing about in the highest seat of power were blameless when he started running amok.
"Let"?
SA tried to be inclusive. It was innovative in the sense that leadership positions are regularly elected. This is generally considered a good and fun thing, because it involves players. SA has a whooping, what, 13 elders? This game is losing more and more nobles, and in SA, like in most realm, it had become hard to find new blood. Most of the people with a minimum of ambition were already elders. And as Vita said, some supported Enoch without the slightest hint of what he was planning.
You know they actually declared an election void so they could have a do over and make sure Enoch won instead of me.
That election ended with barely any candidates making any announcement, and thus barely any elders having actually cast a vote. Also, I don't think the first vote had you as a winner, did it?
Its the time and resources spent on the Temples and followers that prevent people from considering this avenue. We are talking about years of gold poured into the infrastructure. Few people are really going to want to do all that again just to get the new church to replace the old. That is assuming you even could. Remember that many of the members of SA are likely to be semi inactive. I would think at best you might get 60-70% of the SA Lords to convert to the new religion, and that is optimistic. Even if all the "leaders" pushed for the new break away, chances are you will never recreate the level of success of SA, and for some people that just won't be good enough.
Why bother, if it can all happen again the next time the founder disappears? I sure wouldn't.
We aren't seeing new players to the game at all. New players to the continent is also going to be hard. Most people that have a interest playing on Dwilight are already there. There will be small amounts obviously, but nothing in the order of what would be required to set up even a small amount of the success of SA.
That's nonsense. The whole continent was at war.
Oh so when your toy you put years into is destroyed, it becomes a problem?
This is the name of the game people. There was a nice core of players who thought they were the best, the smartest, the craftiest and well... you've been had. By an old timer and a newbie. Deal with it. Realms with literally a decade of history have been destroyed and they didn't take to the forums to complain, SA will persevere in a different form. Circle of life, yada yada.
I can't think of a single realm that, after years of existence, was destroyed by a click and win mechanic like this.
I completely agree. I am just being realistic in stating that a sizeable group are not going to take the risk of posting RP's of this nature.
He could have sent RPs, and it wouldn't have changed anything. By then, he already had total immunity.