Then a) maybe your realm lacks some of the RP/IC atmosphere that the long-term-war realms I was in had, and b) maybe your realm lacks the imagination they had to come up with other ways to attack (actually, now I think of it, that could account for (a) as well).
In my experience, a realm with some imagination and atmosphere can be extremely fun when in a war (especially when the enemy also has imagination!), and is still way more fun in peacetime than realms where everyone is just all about the numbers.
The internal atmosphere wasn't the problem: there's always someone in Fontan to pick a verbal fight with regardless of whether there's a war. However you could be right about the lack of imagination. My old character Moira had some success raiding northern Sirion, but the bulk of the military command was fixated on big pushes which won glorious but futile victories which frankly were just typical MMO grind.
