So your excuse is that since you've played for awhile you shouldn't have to be aware of any changes to an ever-changing game? Ignorance, least of all willful ignorance, is no excuse.
The excuse is that it's reasonable in an ever changing game to miss a recent change. And you're not one to talk, you thought the collapse of a federated realm caused morale penalties throughout the federation. That's clear proof that you also don't have a complete knowledge of the game rules and yet you try to shame me for not knowing one of them. That's called hypocrisy.
Have you ever mentioned to your nobility that the realm requires diplomats and is seeking volunteers? Of course not, as you willfully let yourself be unaware as to their function. Try it some time. Or do it yourself.
You mean have I ever violated my fellow players inalienable rights? No I haven't. Check the wiki some time it says "When it comes to inalienable rights, "requests" are the same as orders".
I imagine you'll argue that in practice a request made realm wide is an exception, but I'd rather not run my realm that way.
Even if what you're suggesting wasn't a gross violation of the game's most fundamental rules it wouldn't change my argument because what you're suggesting is a huge waste of people's time.
So you make a decision that your commoners do not want, and then complain when the realm's territories collapse. Guess what? That realm ISN'T dead. There are likely still inactive characters still hoisting the banner (one of the reasons Tom doesn't have realms auto-deleted).
Only there aren't because the realm was reverted to part of Astrum and all citizens became Astrumese.
Obviously you do not in fact "think pretty darn carefully" about ANY treaties you make or else you would take all factors into consideration. There is no magic button that makes the peasants forget that you did something that they so vehemently opposed! Nor should there be. This isn't something 12 years after the fact. This isn't something three decades after the fact. This is something that is WEEKS after the fact. If you think protests die down that fast in ANY circumstance, you're deluding yourself.
In game time is relative. A few weeks is more like several months. I don't remember when exactly Kambriskia reverted itself to Astrum but it's no longer on my saved messages so it's at least four weeks old, which in game is more like four months since a year is only 12 weeks long.
I know from experience that protests die down pretty quickly after a war ends. Point in case the second Iraq war. I haven't heard of a simple anti war protest of any significance for years now, anti war protesting has almost completely shifted to Afghanistan and mind you there are still US troops in Iraq.
No, this would be more like protesting the USSR's membership in the UN a month after it began breaking up.
Yet another bad analogy.
It would be like if the soviet union completely broke up, its national territory all became nations that are not UN member states and four months later there were non-crackpots protesting Soviet UN membership.
But thank you for showing you are purely childish and cannot grasp realistic concepts. Or spelling.
Grammar nazing and personal attacks are the ultimate proof of someone on the internet with no argument. You're correct I don't spell that well. I rely on spell check pretty heavily and I don't proof read postings online. That's why Moral vs Morale comes up a lot, since they're both words it doesn't get flagged so it will come out as a typo a lot. I'm sure you don't do everything perfectly either (like for example it took you four tries to properly comprehend my complaints, I'll take reading comprehension over perfect spelling any day). I'm hardly "sndng mssgs dat luk like dis" which people online do all the time.
I'll admit my previous comment to you was a little overboard and for that I apologize, but you have to understand you were derailing my thread and are continuing to derail the thread. The continued morale penalties are the least of my concerns. I'm much more annoyed that breaking or joining a federation doesn't have an "are you sure" page.
