You come here and say repeatedly that people are more or less brainless drones and just play by reading a publically available script.
You really expected to write such insults in here and that it won't backfire on you?
Excuse me but I have not played 10 years and shaped EC along with other great players to be called such things.
If you can't take the heat, then don't open the gas valve...
I'll take a page from your book on this one: "I never called anyone a "brainless drone". I didn't name anyone, you're taking this all too personally. I'm not insulting anyone."
Yes, we all played alongside great players. Yes, we've all played for years. Yes, we've all shaped the island, etc., etc. None of that exempts us from responsibility for the situation that has evolved. Every player on the EC, including me and you, are responsible for how things have evolved.
And yeah, I did post something similar to the way I started this thread. And if you'll note from that post, and from this one here, I'm not the only one that feels this way. If it was just me, then sure, sour grapes, one random nutjob, whatever... But it's not. That prior post was written following an OOC message from the EC ruler's channel where the
rulers of EC were bemoaning the fact of how EC was turning into a sucky place. (And I didn't start that conversation, either.) I stand by what I said back then. And nothing has changed.
Moving past all that, convince me that I'm wrong. Convince me that events on EC are not now where anyone could have predicted they would be, one year ago today. (Again, making allowances for the ice age event.) IC letters just point out how lock-step everyone is marching. I tried to break things up, and just got locked out. Yes, I failed to split things up, and effect some change to the political landscape.
So, convince me that the EC is a rich and vibrant political landscape, chock full of opportunity, variety, and options. I don't think you or anyone else can honestly stand here and say that anyone on the EC right has more than these two options: 1) Join the Southern Alliance, and 2) Join the Northern Alliance. Anyone who tries anything else gets smacked down.