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East Island / Re: The War

« on: December 21, 2017, 08:23:41 AM »

Daniel... I miss him. The relationship between our chars began with hate and ended in great things.

PS: Erik saved the White Tree... no one saved the Church of the Sacred Grove! Damn you all!!!! 

Glad that WoW copying religion is dead. It was so stupid... Nobody in the elder council wanted to change that. It was just there to prevent other religions. It was nothing special. I tried to change it once but Ecthelion never gave me an elder position :p

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General Talk / Re: I'm writing a story

« on: December 20, 2017, 06:23:15 AM »

Hexagons... not a big fan of hexagon maps.

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East Island / Re: The War

« on: December 20, 2017, 01:29:57 AM »

I'm pretty sure he did. Never cared with the fame points. I had another rulers in the family.

He did while he was the PM. But the moment he lost the election, he lost it. Reread what I said. You misunderstood what I said. I did not mean you need the fame points. What I meant was you need to stay on the throne that long (according to Vita about 90 days) to be able to KEEP your royal status. If you lose the ruler title before that it doesn't stay permanently. It disappears the moment you lose the ruler status. That is why you need to stay on the throne for 3 months.

Erik should probably never have run for the position to be honest. I felt he actually lost some popularity from his non-core supporters after what he did as the PM. When I came back after a month, people were sending private messages on how bad Sirion had become during my absence. People hated two things the most. Webin as the general because he was just horrendously bad and Erik as the PM for signing the peace treaty to ditch allies. Then again thanks to Erik's blunder, Zakilevo could be re-elected right away despite the council being really not happy with him.

But it was good that you only was the PM for a month. Otherwise you would be hating Sirion as much as I do. I think only Gabanus hates it as much as I do.

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East Island / Re: The War

« on: December 19, 2017, 02:37:04 AM »

Atanamir was attacking Nivemus and looting northern Sirion. Of course, he tried to bite too much and I took advantage.

Erik then won royal title and at the time it was all I needed to avoid stupid Judges trying to banish him while he stayed with Avamar, Krimml, Oligarch... if you ask me, that was much better than be PM, a title I wanted just because of immunity. With that I had a word on how to divide the new duchies without bow to Zakilevo and another old farts in the Council.

Win/win. Let the war to the Generals and took the fame worked very well for him. Never cared with tatics, formations and strategy... my strategy was political, appointing right people for the right positions and supporting good Generals. It worked for a long time, but I like character progression and it was normal to turn him in a 'villain' in the end of his life, after deal with so much power. If you compare the old Erik to the young Judge/Cavalier, that's quite a visible change.

Uhh no. Erik didn't keep his royal status. He never was a royal duke except the time he was on the throne which was about a month. You need to be a ruler long enough to unlock the last ruler fame point I believe. So yeah Erik's plan failed. Should have ruled better XD

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BM General Discussion / Re: Average messages per realm (last month)

« on: December 17, 2017, 05:08:30 PM »

4.5 from OI that is sad.

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East Island / Re: The War

« on: December 16, 2017, 10:59:12 PM »

I just realized Ivo is no longer Sirion's PM. Did he not run or did he lose to Thomas?

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East Island / Re: The War

« on: December 16, 2017, 10:57:34 PM »

While I absolutely do not deny Sirion provided the bulk of military power, and the war could've never been won without them, Sirion was never alone in putting Atanamir and Perdan out of the fight, or fighting Westmoor. Furthermore, Perdan wasn't out of the fight before Westmoor. We killed Westmoor (begrudgingly, offering them to please stop their foolish war against us, to no avail), and then fought Perdan to a surrender (which they then proceeded to violate sometime later).

You are getting confused. He is talking about the time when he was the PM. This is before the creation of Perleone when Eponllyn still had lands in south....

Only reason why Perdan stopped fighting Sirion back then was not because Erik took them out of the war. It was because Perdan was busy fighting Armonia, Caligus and Eponllyn all at once. Erik actually became unpopular because he was getting too friendly with Atanamir and even signed a peace treaty which people were unhappy about. And of course I won the following election by criticizing Erik heavily on his 'achievement' which worked (Zakilevo got 100 votes while Erik got 46).

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East Island / Re: The War

« on: December 16, 2017, 11:01:04 AM »

More partner than vassal, but yeah. I became the first Duke  + Lord of Kazakh and did virtually all of the arguing in the Senate as well as spokeperson (that's why Garas is part Dubhaine hehe). Good times, massive uproar in Fontan's Assembly when the plans leaked.

@Lapallanch sonyou destroyed SoA, damn you! 

Indeed. Miriam never forgave me for that XD. Took years to isolate SoA. All I did was finish them off by taking all their cities. Nothing special.

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East Island / Re: The War

« on: December 16, 2017, 04:55:27 AM »

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

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East Island / Re: The War

« on: December 16, 2017, 03:39:44 AM »

There was somewhat of a long peace period between Westmoor's loss of Oligarch and their eventual destruction. By the time I quit, the southern realms were failing miserably against Perdan. Eponllyn led by Indirik was blaming Armonia for not coordinating with Caligus and Eponllyn while Armonia was blaming Eponllyn for not listening to what they agreed on. When Caligus started to lose badly, their southern duchy broke off and formed Fallangard which weakened Caligus even more.

So from the end of this first great war in many years, Perdan emerged victorious in the south while Sirion finally took Oligarch from Westmoor, weakening Westmoor significantly.

The later great war started when the ice started to kick people out of south. Armonia which lost most of its lands to ice lost what little left of their lands to Fallangard and was destroyed while Eponllyn packed their !@#$ and went north joining Sirion. When they got Oligarch, Perdan objected and declared war.

I actually happened to be on the both sides back then. One character in Westmoor while the other in Eponllyn. Spent my days insulting both of my characters.... sad stuff.

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East Island / Re: The War

« on: December 16, 2017, 02:10:04 AM »

Heh. I was the general of Sirion who destroyed SoA. Was a good opportunity to build a name as Zakilevo. Blundered my first siege battle greatly. OI did nothing except send like 2k. At least they didn't stop Sirion from destroying SoA. Westmoor attacked Fontan out of greed while Sirion was finishing SoA. Went south to smash Westmoor and kept Fontan alive but Fontan died few months later and was absorbed by Sirion. By then Zakilevo was PM of Sirion. Took a month break due to some family matter then came back to take the rulership from Erik Eyolf who did nothing during the month I was away. People were pissed that Sirion's armies were moving back and forward between 2 regions chasing after Westmoor's army for 2 weeks. Webin was still the general but Zakilevo took all the power away from him and directly controlled the armies to attack Westmoor's regions directly. Westmoor was forced to meet Sirion's armies on the field and got smashed. They surrendered and decided to give Oligarch back when the lord of the city seceded to form Fane which took 2 siege attempts to bring it down. Wanted to help Caligus and southern realms but the council turned it down because they wanted peace. The war ended up getting most of southern realms severely weakened because Sirion bailed. I think this was the time Perdan reduced Caligus into a single duchy realm while carving out Perleone out of Eponllyn. Retired Zakilevo when the friction between Zakilevo and the council got pretty bad where the average players supported Zakilevo while dukes opposed. I guess I could have kept playing Zakilevo but I was pretty burned out by then. I think Ecthelion took over after?

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Development / Re: Rethinking the rules

« on: December 08, 2017, 01:12:49 AM »

Here is my two cents.

1) Strategic capital move.
-people can somewhat bull!@#$ their way and pretend they are doing it for historic reasons before a couple months before a major war.
-to prevent stuff like this, you can provide incentives or disincentives of having a capital in somewhere. To be honest having a capital in the center of your realm probably makes more sense.
-also historically, countries did move their capital around to shorten their  frontline. Of course no country moved it right next to the frontline but some countries did move their capital few hundred kilometers to closer for various - not just for shortening the frontline - reasons.
-can provide incentives to move capitals more frequently. Maybe having the capital in the same region for longer than 1 RL time when you can have your capital elsewhere can cause corruption that builds up overtime?
-Allow realms to put a capital in a non-city region. Don't need to change the region type. Just allow them to build Lv5 walls maybe. Maybe put a little crown mark on dynamic map or something.

Realm Merger:
-Should probably be allowed. When small realms merge to form a bigger realm, think of castile and aragon.
-When a small realm and a big realm merge, think of it as the small realm becoming a duke of a larger kingdom. Big countries did forcefully vassalize a smaller country historically. There were cases where a smaller dying kingdom eventually surrendered due to their incapability to maintain their country due to civil wars or other disasters.
-There just aren't enough incentives to merge for two large realms to form an even bigger realm due to various penalties so I doubt you need to worry about that too much. In most cases, I am guessing smaller realms will try to form a bigger one which should be fine since small realms these days are miserably small in many cases. Not much you can do with less than 10 people honestly.
-For now at least, you should probably be encouraging larger realms. Too many smaller realms don't really work. Some people think 10 realms with 10 people each will be ideal but it is not. Half of those realms will die or become too boring. It is heathier to have 5 realms with 20 nobles each instead. I think there is a critical number of people you need in a realm to make it work since it is very hard to talk to your neighbours in this game unless you travel or be in the same guild. If joining a guild was easier maybe that would help people communicate better.

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East Island / Re: Greater Xavax Imperium

« on: December 07, 2017, 06:38:40 PM »

Arcaea's ring was even worse. Super compact.

As for secession, the best way to do it is to talk to a dev if you are not sure. Just get a hold of either Anaris of Vita` and ask them.

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East Island / Re: Greater Xavax Imperium

« on: December 07, 2017, 04:45:19 PM »

Nivemus planning on splitting is indeed a well known thing. I agree with Aeneas. The problem with the whole Sol and Swordfell was that Sol was literally called Fellish Duchy of Sol. Plus Crixus gave thorough instructions on everything. That is creating a puppet. Something you want to avoid in the first place. And doing that in the middle of an ongoing war....

Although you are in a war, the frontline is pretty far from Nivemus. I don't think OI and Nivemus are fighting directly? As long as the new realm is free to do whatever it wants, you are probably okay.

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East Island / Re: Greater Xavax Imperium

« on: December 07, 2017, 12:43:31 PM »

What is going on? Someone actually wanted to give Xavax nobles Slimbar? Damn... Never thought Sirion wanted to give up on their ring of fortifications.