Anaris, this has nothing to do with risks being dangerous, and everything to do with the culture of the Rulers where for whatever reason not taking risks is seen as a good thing, even though it has been proven detrimental to the game. The impetus is entirely on the rulers to create fun for their players, since the average player has very little influence on the political climate of the continent as a whole.
You're thinking at too high a level. Don't look on it as being the decisions made by rulers of realms, but rather as an abstract problem of evolving agents.
Those agents who make choices that are risky are more likely to die. Those agents who make choices that are safer are less likely to die.
That means that
any agent that has lived a long time is vastly more likely to come from the latter group.
So the statement that "all the long lasting rulers" think first of keeping their position and keeping their realm alive, and only second of fun, is pretty much like saying "water is wet."
So...it totally
does have to do with risks being dangerous. Because the realms ruled by people who take those risks?
They die. They die, and the realms that are ruled by "safe" rulers survive.
But if you're so sure that this is purely a problem of "culture", what would you propose to change it?
