How NOT to declare war

[Lefanis]

Back in MY days we were given an income of 1 gold a week! One!

Yeah! And then that got wealth taxed away too!

[Vellos]

Back in MY days we were given an income of 1 gold a week! One! And my region had a population of 1 peasant even though it had two knights, I was taxing the work from his left arm, while my liege was taxing the work from the right arm! And sometimes you'd skip a week of income, and you'd just have to live through it, and you'd be expected to drive away 1000 CS monster units every. single. day! SO GET OFF MY LAWN!

(True story by the way. Man, Dwilight has gotten so easy.)

No kidding. All these new folks don't know how hard we worked, carving out civilization from the wilderness! Bunch a damn hippies if you ask me!

[Glaumring the Fox]

I didn't even get tax gold... I just looted wild regions for gold.

[Arrakis]

and looted by thousands... those wild regions had a bunch of gold stored way back. i remember sending looting parties to get some gold with which we've built a /ton/ of things. it is little known that realms like astrum and probably morek were built by pillaging and thievery.

[Indirik]

Not true. Astrum never engaged in any organized looting parties, unlike realms such as Caerwyn. And didn't Terran actually formalize rogue region looting with laws regulating the goverment's share?

[Arrakis]

it did. i personally looted mimer peninsula. i think that counts.

but yes, caerwyn was infamous for that. they had a neat system going on.

[Indirik]

No wonder we pawned you off on Niselur.

[Arrakis]

/After/ you built your walls with that gold. don't worry, all great empires were built on low methods and barbarism

[Vellos]

And didn't Terran actually formalize rogue region looting with laws regulating the goverment's share?

Not exactly; it wasn't formal, but we did loot the rogue lands quite prodigiously.

[Indirik]

Must have been Caerwyn that had those laws. A looting army, and laws about where you could go , and how much you had to give the realm.

I don't remember much looting in Astrum. We intentionally did not loot Mimer, as we intended to take it. And Everguard and Viridian were west of us. So, while we may not have looted because of lack of opportunity, I will claim the moral high ground and say it was on principles.

[Zahringer]

Info regarding the militia stealing: http://forum.battlemaster.org/index.php/topic,2294.0.html


Basically, still a few bugs in the system.  They are going to be disbanded.

Two days later, and the militia remain in the province. I fear that the disband button has also become bugged up. Has anyone reported the inoperable disband button yet?

[Penchant]

Two days later, and the militia remain in the province. I fear that the disband button has also become bugged up. Has anyone reported the inoperable disband button yet?

Disbanding militia is not just click here to remove all militia thing, it costs gold and takes hours. The character has removed as much militia as he currently could, according to the devs, which was 30 men. Also he has gone to the capital to turn his bonds into gold.

[DoctorHarte]

No kidding. All these new folks don't know how hard we worked, carving out civilization from the wilderness! Bunch a damn hippies if you ask me!

More like we know how to let others do the work and we reap the benefits 

it did. i personally looted mimer peninsula. i think that counts.

I remember all that! The ruler at the time, a female character I cant quite remember her name, said you couldnt go looting rural regions. Instead you disregarded her and the rest of Astrum and went out into the wild for the gold and your dream of creating a realm in Darfix. Too bad things went downhill so fast for the realm after you left. But these memories are for other places, how does Summerdale vs. LE fair? Any recent battles?

[Broose]

More like we know how to let others do the work and we reap the benefits 

I remember all that! The ruler at the time, a female character I cant quite remember her name, said you couldnt go looting rural regions. Instead you disregarded her and the rest of Astrum and went out into the wild for the gold and your dream of creating a realm in Darfix. Too bad things went downhill so fast for the realm after you left. But these memories are for other places, how does Summerdale vs. LE fair? Any recent battles?

Their armies are staring each other down. Summerdale is taking Torrents Breath, but it looks like LE isn't doing anything about it.

[Arrakis]

I remember all that! The ruler at the time, a female character I cant quite remember her name, said you couldnt go looting rural regions. Instead you disregarded her and the rest of Astrum and went out into the wild for the gold and your dream of creating a realm in Darfix. Too bad things went downhill so fast for the realm after you left.

The ruler was Alexandria Dwarvenite, I don't think the player is in the game anymore. I don't really remember that looting was frowned upon by the rest of Astrum, as in that time Boreal was the General and had the authority to issue looting. He went as far as Mimiravair with his looting as far as I remember. At that time there was a deep rift with Morek, so any infighting in Astrum was avoided at that time, I think. I paused shortly after.
It was only after I unpaused that Boreal didn't find Astrum appealing anymore due to the many enemies he made. He always was a control freak and many people couldn't stand that. Darfix was never his initial goal when he helped found Astrum, but without any support left in Astrum he wanted to go somewhere else, and by Mathurin's advice he embarked to create Niselur. The gold for that endeavor was donated by the Warders of the Faith which at that time was composed of Dukes of SA, I don't remember looting for that gold. But yes, Niselur was doomed due to food issues and many monsters around. Dwilight was quite a harsh place back then.

But these memories are for other places, how does Summerdale vs. LE fair? Any recent battles?

We are doing well, I'd say. Have a lot of rp going on with newish players and are consistently winning the war. The tough part will be to take Mt. Black Nastrond again, so we'll see how that fares.