Y'all think you can do a better job? What, you mean talk a bunch to others?
Probably not. Because I don't know all the design details, I don't know how much of what I'm criticizing is the GM's behavior, Tom's design, or something else. I won't presume to know all the details.
Without revealing everything about how your faction works?
Yeah, because understanding that my opponent has to use gold to recruit practically guarantees I'm going to win a war with him.
Because you know, becoming a GM usually means you have a !@#$ton more restrictions than ever before, and I'm pretty sure you're not supposed to just out and say what you're here for. In fact I'm fairly certain the Zuma GM is not supposed to overtly state what the Zuma's purpose is.
Sounds plausible and reasonable. So maybe I'm not criticizing the GM, ultimately, but Tom.
And y'all can BS all you want right now about how you wouldn't think about roflstomping other realms.
No, I would totally rotflstomp every realm near the Zuma. And I would demand their absolute subservience, and launch my own crusades against any entity that criticized daimonic rule, and require that ambassadors come to meet me in my capital and take up residence there. I might demand concubines as well.
But I would be clear: I'm not doing this because of some mysterious purpose. I am doing this because I am powerful, you are not, and I live in a !@#$ing volcano. And I would be careful to overextend myself and leave plenty of vulnerabilities, and make lots of enemies, and alienate lots of people. In a sense, Arcane, in Vlaanderen, comes to mind.
This is why it's probably good I'm not a GM: and also why I don't think the Zuma should be on Dwilight. Because the reasonable course of action for the GM is one that is obviously not in keeping with what almost everyone perceives Dwilight to be about.
It would piss off a lot of people, but there's really nothing I know that's stopping him. That said, you really think you wouldn't ever be tempted to go rage?
If I knew why? Nah, I wouldn't be that upset. Go somewhere else, start over on a new continent. Losing doesn't bother me. I'd be fine with the Invasion succeeding on Beluaterra too; I kind of actually groan a bit whenever I hear there's a chance for victory.
Remember, it's a GM-controlled NPC faction. You'll have to propose your superior vision of how to handle the Zuma with that in mind. You can't make it into a human realm. You can't make it so that you can't recruit daimons. Basically, the starting scenario is: You are a GM given powers to recruit daimons. Your "realm" is an NPC realm with associated mechanics. You must now deal with the players.
That's bullcrap. I don't have to suggest a better GM-controlled NPC faction. I don't think there should be any GM-controlled NPC faction at all. If you want me to come up with stories of how the Zuma could be "wound down" so it's not just a "Poof! They're gone" type thing I can take a shot. But I don't think there should be a GM faction.
And besides, you're just changing the topic to get out of a hard spot.