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When I become General women won't exist cause of that kill rape burn option I will always use. BWAHAHA being evil is so fun.
Oh I remember that! That was strange, yet cool, how the militia would attack Fontan. Kinda cool game mechanic.
Um. First I've ever heard THAT story. What with everyone saying Westmoor and its regions were claimed in war, etc.
On the contrary, when the Duchy of Krimml defected to Perdan (when they controlled Westmoor), it was RETURNED TO FONTAN.
So either many old line Perdan/Westmoor/Caligus players are lying... Or you're really confusing duchies. I somehow think it's the latter.
I should note that I managed to become General of Fontan in late 2009 by pushing for more imaginative strategies, but when the Marshals of the realm all refused to actually implement those strategies, and the Judge (who happened to be more or less the leader of the orthodox faction) supported their disobedience, I stepped down after less than a month and left in disgust.
Since that time, Fontan has gone continually downhill.
Then a) maybe your realm lacks some of the RP/IC atmosphere that the long-term-war realms I was in had, and b) maybe your realm lacks the imagination they had to come up with other ways to attack (actually, now I think of it, that could account for (a) as well).
In my experience, a realm with some imagination and atmosphere can be extremely fun when in a war (especially when the enemy also has imagination!), and is still way more fun in peacetime than realms where everyone is just all about the numbers.
No...no, it really isn't. Trust me, I've lived through both, and no wars for ages is way, way, way more boring.
So, the war continues forever? Yay! That's kind of what we are here for. War. Strife. Intrigue. At least they are finding legitimate reasons to keep starting new wars.
Generally, I'd say the official unofficial policy on name changes is that from an IC perspective, they can be considered retroactive. That is, once you, the player, know that Monte Cristo was once named High Guard, your characters all know that the character was always named Monte Cristo, and everything that High Guard did, they know was actually done by Monte Cristo.
This is because name changes are not an IC tool to change your RP or escape from a bad rep; they are an OOC tool to change bad/inappropriate names into good/appropriate ones.
Merlin: STAND BACK! Be silent! Be still!
Merlin: That's it... and look upon this moment. Savor it! Rejoice with great gladness! Great gladness! Remember it always, for you are joined by it. You are One, under the stars. Remember it well, then... this night, this great victory. So that in the years ahead, you can say, 'I was there that night, with Arthur, the King!' For it is the doom of men that they forget.
Yet High Guard (same character but renamed to Monte Cristo) is the ambassador of Nivemus.
Yes, I hear OOC that they have broken away from Sirion. But as far as Fontan was concerned, they were a Sirionite colony that was carved from Fontanese land. Thus, they are beholden to Sirion. A totally reasonable assumption, I think, for IC.
Nivemus is sort of the rebellious teenage kid to Sirion who repeatedly tries to prove its independence by making less than well thought out decisions just to demonstrate that they are a separate entity...
A lot of people in Lukon wanted to try that a long time ago (me too at first)... but I kinda held everyone back. So instead of killing realms every time we went to war, we would pull back a bit...or help rebuild OT...or give some one else a city...or create the realm of MT...
But that was more tied into RP of the character (which in my opinion should be the reason anything happens). Valast is dead... and his daughter has something to prove to the world...
