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Development / Re: Make Battlemaster Great Again - War Overhaul

« on: July 17, 2019, 04:04:15 PM »

Theres more than simple "changes in mechanics" to do, in order to make battlemaster "great again". The ones in charge of the game did everything they could to kick away the players that actually made the game fun to play.

But hey... let people have two characters in the same island again, that could be a start...

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East Island / Re: The War

« on: December 16, 2017, 01:46:39 PM »

I updated what happened during my time but Ecthelion did not. I doubt Ivo did it either.

The major part of the war took part between 2008 until we took Fontan city and handeled to Dobromir pretty much ending Fontan and thus SoA. Theres pretty much nothing written there.

Eduardo must remember when i asked Erik to buy Negev. He was mad to use his family gold. That allowed us to start the takeover of Fontan city.

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East Island / Re: The War

« on: December 16, 2017, 03:54:06 AM »

And yet, Sirion's history on wiki has not one war, but several distinct wars. And I'm sure I could probably dig up various surrender terms and peace treaties from those various wars, if I kept looking. And from my perspective playing outside Sirion in several of those wars, other realms viewed them as distinct wars with separate peace and surrender terms. In fact, Eponllyn history very clearly fought several separate wars with Perdan (from their founding until the end of your proposed timeline), with periods of peace in-between. By your telling, Westmoor was founded (it existed after SoA did) and destroyed in one long war that raged from 2008 until 2015. And yet, I'm certain I could also find several forum posts about people being bored on EC for lack of peace throughout those years.

Yes, the wars were connected, but only in the same way that WW2 was connected to WW2, yet without being the same war.

So, if its not in the wiki, it did not happened? Lol, Sirion's wiki does not even say half of what happened.

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East Island / Re: The War

« on: December 16, 2017, 12:06:15 AM »

Lol this is funny...both my accounts were in that war then 

First account was one of the founders of SoA (included 2 dutchmen and still we didn't see the abbreviation mess up till it was too late...) and new accounted started at thd beginning of the athermath in which we (Sirion this time around) destroyed Westmoor.

So you were a vassal of Kalkandellen.

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East Island / Re: The War

« on: December 15, 2017, 09:08:53 PM »

I think you've confused several wars all at once. SoA was not created at the end of the Great War I was discussing. Nor were SoA and OR around when Eponllyn was around. If you were talking about the same Great War I was, Rancagua was also killed (amongst a long list of other realms killed throughout that war). There was also no five-OOC-year war in recent EC history. The war that saw Westmoor killed and Eponllyn relocated was only about half an OOC year in length. It's been a few years, but I think Fontan was killed in its own war, separately from Old Rancagua. As a participant in several of the wars you grouped together, they were indeed very fun and significant in the development towards what EC is now.

Lol im not confused. It was all part of the same war. Fontan created the SoA in Kazakh and wiped Old Rancagua. The rancaguan refugees fled to Sirion. Then Fontan and SoA war Sirion. Then Fontan sealed a pact with Westmoor and they invented some kind of story about Sirion kidnapping their king so they joined the war. With the 3 realms, they had Sirion only defending. Then Perdan and OI joined the other 3 realms. After a couple of big losses in Sermbar, Dobromir had Caligus join with Sirion and that put Perdan away. Sirion started to advance and broke Fontan. After destroying Fontan, Sirion head north and attacked SoA. OI seized the opportunity and switched sides to join Sirion. After SoA was destroyed, Nivemus was formed. There was a very small frame of time of peace until Perdan came back with Westmoor attacking the former Fontanesse lands (at that time in Sirions hands) with Atanamir as General. That small lapse took a few months and it ended up with the destruction of Westmoor and establishment of Eponyll on their place.

All those events, are linked and connected, and part of the same war. It took place from 2007 until 2014 but (if not mistaken) Old Rancagua fell around 2009 so what we can call as Great War took like 5 years.

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East Island / Re: The War

« on: December 15, 2017, 07:32:56 PM »

In my view, there was only one true Great War, the war that ravaged (roughly) between Sirion/Fontan and Perdan/Oligarch/Avamar. The war waged for years (it was going a year or two before I joined in 2005, I think, and went until...2007? the end of 2006?). While there were some core realms that were consistent (Perdan and Sirion), other reams switched sides, rebellions were fought over who the realm would fight and not fight, civil wars/secessions raged over the same. South EC of Yssaria, Ibladesh, and Itorunt had different interests than those up north, but the war consumed them as part of the epic contest. The war affected every corner of EC and EC was defined by the war; EC was known as the best continent to jump into a war. It was thought it would never end. And then it did, EC got stuck in eternal peace, and Tom had to threaten to lightning bolt all the rulers to get the island moving again.

But I've noticed a tendency amongst BM players of labelling almost every war since then, and even during then on other continents, as 'the Great War'. I have long found it quite uncreative, but I've also come to realize that doing such is a simple way of glorifying one's own BM achievements by calling one's war great. My contention is not that there have not been wars that have been great, epic, or fun, but that if we call every war the Great War, all the wars lose their 'greatness', ie, 'so its as great as the other dozen great wars?', losing the meaning of being truly great.

And there's my schpeal on Great Wars apparently.

Fontan, Sultanate of Asena, Westmoor, Perdan and Obsidian Island vs Sirion (Old Rancagua, Caligus and Nivemus for short period). This war destroyed 4 realms (Old Rancagua, Fontan, Sultanate of Asena and Westmoor) ,created another (Nivemus) and re located another (Eponlly). It took like 5 years in real life with moments of higher activity than others and it had all the condiments to be called a Great War. I believe that only a player that did not participated could say this was not one of the most important and significative wars in the East Continent.

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East Island / Re: The War

« on: December 09, 2017, 04:38:34 PM »

You do know tge player of Ryu has returned right? Moore family. Are you sure you're not missing Garas as general 

I really wonder how do you know this.

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East Island / Re: Which realm to join?

« on: December 09, 2017, 03:59:10 PM »

You clearly spent quiet some time as a Red Dragon, dont you Brock?

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Other Games / Re: Dungeons and Dragons

« on: April 15, 2017, 05:30:39 PM »

Played D&D for MAAAAANY years. Mostly under 3.5 rules.

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BM General Discussion / Re: Famous Old Characters

« on: October 18, 2016, 08:04:26 PM »

Necromancy!

Someone had me look up this thread. And I just realized it was five minutes until it was 1 year and 1 day, to the minute, since I started this thread. So I am now posting to bump it up, almost exactly 1 year, 1 day later. I am thinking an annual tradition of players nominating characters for inclusion would be positive for the community.

So, any new character nominations? Now that an initial foundation of characters through history has been established, I'd like to be a lot more selective on adding new names, hopefully no more than 1-2 per island. The fewest uppermost names of fame, infamy, legend, and influence on an island. Characters that no longer exist and will not be returning. So who qualifies for that within the last year?

Queen Evangeline Uceek . Holded the highest bounty i ever saw (something around 8k gold). The bounty was collected by the best infiltrator at that time Guy Revan, brother of Alain Revan (Sirion's banker for long time).

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BM General Discussion / Re: Famous Old Characters

« on: October 31, 2015, 02:53:57 PM »

Sulliven sounds familiar... Refresh my memory. Please.

Sulliven was Duke of Oligarch if i recall correctly and creator of the KDF Lions. Basically... he was "the man" responsible for Fontans military success. I 'd created the Red Dragons to counter the Lions but couldnt really test myself against him because as soon as the RD was created the whole Locking/Cheating/Whatever happened. Murat Kalkandelen (Sulliven's right hand) took over the military by the time Ryu was General and even when he was good he wasnt nearly as good as Sulliven. Elberan Carnes (Another old character) created the Manticores after the Lions been disbanded, a pure cavalry army, achieving some victories, but was no match for a incredibly balanced and heavily coordinated Red Dragons.

Bad english, cheater or not, or whatever, he was a tough smart rival.

PS: The whole cheating/locking, was roleplayed as Jon Paul Ogren (another old char) husband of Katrina uncovering Sulliven's deeds and later was found assassinated by Moira Dubhaine (another oldie) in revenge for the disappearance of former Lion master.

PS2: Fun to recall those times. Best time i had in Battlemaster. Amazing roleplays, great in-game motives, plots, spys, massive strategy and most important, way more players.

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BM General Discussion / Re: Famous Old Characters

« on: October 30, 2015, 08:31:47 PM »

Sulliven Koga.

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BM General Discussion / Re: East Continent OOC/Titans Issue

« on: May 07, 2014, 02:06:03 PM »

What 3-4 additional reports? There were only 2 reports shared realm-wide, including this one.

There were other reports before the first realm wide one about recruiting specific unit types.

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BM General Discussion / Re: East Continent OOC/Titans Issue

« on: May 07, 2014, 05:47:49 AM »

Just for the record, the lock was of no importance to me. The report before that one went public and as soon as that happened, i mailed Tom. Happened again over that ooc and quitted.

But what made me feel bad was the public harm to my reputation. The rest is just decoration.

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BM General Discussion / Re: East Continent OOC/Titans Issue

« on: May 07, 2014, 05:36:04 AM »

Doesn't look like it was due to accumulation of reports that got you a lock. They told you to cool down. Instead you exploded.

Also this is why the titans shouldn't reveal the complainer. You wanted to pick a fight with this person. I wonder how many people will either threaten/be dicks to others IC for reporting them to the titans but probably this is the main reason why the titans are protecting the identity of the complainer.

In addition, insulting other players is a violation of the Social Contract.

Thanks to post that i didnt recalled what i said. I was not trying to pick a fight but lure that person into showing himself so i can understand why that person was reporting me and take action with whoever should be informed about a player with an OOC beef towards me.

By the way, i was wrong in saying that OOC realm wide, but what the message contains is 110% true. And taking that as real insult is for someone very suceptible. I had way bigger argues with the Fleishers/Flockharts with way more things said than that.