Actually, within Solaria we have complained about travel times a lot. It was just in character grumbling about co-ordination and travel times but still. After all half the reason we keep fighting each other is its just too much hassle to march anywhere to fight non-lurians.
The lands Solaria has weren't taken for all that long, were they?
Besides, the Lurias are a pretty good example that one does not need to travel very far to spice things up. The Lurias are already closer to Morek, D'Hara, and Fissoa than many SA realms were during the crusades. Distance might dissuade, but it doesn't prevent. But it doesn't matter all that much because the Lurias can make things happen internally without having to ask for favors to extend their monolithic gameplay.
But seriously, you need to get out of this mindset that everything that everyone says is some veiled personal assault on you and everything in BattleMaster that you hold dear. You are way too paranoid.
I liked D'Hara, when I joined it, because of its isolation potential. Take the recent delay arrival option and add to that reduced travel times, and we are suddenly a whole lot more accessible to bored warmongers that lack the originality or will to do anything more exciting than just try to find the next unbeliever to bash. That some want to do that is fine, I wouldn't be on Dwi at all if I thought otherwise, but that some of these people feel entitled to have this made easier for them, that gets to me. It is, in my eyes, nothing short of a request for unfair preferential treatment, masked by a generic request of generalizable changes.
If anything, I think the travel times should be increased, especially when outside of your own realm, with perhaps the ability to directly invest in better roads.
