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Helpline / Re: The people here do not like being ruled by us.

« on: August 01, 2011, 05:45:54 PM »

There is some hidden stats on regions in the game

This is true.

and this is one of them.

This is not.

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Beluaterra / Re: the conflict looming

« on: July 31, 2011, 02:55:19 PM »

I'm saying you can wage small-scale war while rebuilding your regions, instead of being 100% one thing for months and months, then switching the other way 100%.

That's actually very rarely true.  Especially on BT.  I don't know how much experience you have with it, but it's a very all-or-nothing place.

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Beluaterra / Re: the conflict looming

« on: July 31, 2011, 04:15:07 AM »

BT is simply an example where this problem is an extreme - I'm talking about the game as a whole.

And the fact remains, Jeff, that you are saying, "You must change human nature, or the game will die."

That is, at best, deeply unhelpful.

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Feature Requests / Re: Battle summary at end of report

« on: July 29, 2011, 04:38:35 PM »

I have made a note of this, and will see what I can do.  I'm not sure exactly what form it will come in, but I will try (at some point) to get something of this nature implemented.

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Development / Re: Retention Revisited

« on: July 28, 2011, 01:48:37 AM »

He's my knight in Raviel, and I warned him the first day to behave himself. He actually has, so far. of course, it's only been two weeks.

I think he lasted a few months in Pian en Luries before he did something moronic and had to leave.

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Beluaterra / Re: the conflict looming

« on: July 28, 2011, 01:09:42 AM »

...while Riombara and Dominion of Alluran were not only refusing peace, but actively trying to ally the monsters against us.

We were not.  There may have been some in our government attempting to get them on our side, but Delvin would not have accepted any alliance with the Monsters against Enweil, and would have employed all his considerable political capital and rhetorical skill in attempting to prevent it.  Nor was he alone in this sentiment.

If it had come to a showdown, it probably would have ended with an earlier Meridian Republic secession than ended up happening, but Riombara would not have allied with the Monsters against humans.

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Development / Re: Retention Revisited

« on: July 28, 2011, 01:03:55 AM »

I was made count of a woodlands with little honor and little time in realm. I think there weren't many candidates, though, and my family ties with the duke most likely helped.

But it was just pointed out by some angry Himoura that my appointment was not legal because of these. I doubt anyone but him will make much of a fuss, though, and even if he pursues it many people have something or other against him, so I don't expect to lose that lordship any time soon. Wouldn't really care if it did happen, though.

Not surprising.  He keeps going back to Minas Ithil because people put up with him there, for the sake of his famous prior characters.  I've seen him get shut down enough times in other realms, when he tries to pull the whole, "Don't you know who I am?!?!" thing...it's quite amusing to watch.  Whereas in Minas Ithil, he has literally gotten away with murder, the King at the time essentially chuckling and saying, "Well, will ya look at that scamp? The things he gets up to, I tell ya.  Well, boys will be boys."

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Development / Re: Retention Revisited

« on: July 27, 2011, 03:36:47 PM »

If it's anything like most wiki projects of that nature, it was probably dreamed up and created/maintained by one or two people, and most of the realm doesn't even know it exists. The last edits were nearly two years ago, with the vast majority of being more than three years old. I wonder how many of the people on that list aren't even in MI anymore...

Oh, no; this was the primary ranking for Minas Ithil going back to...well, at least to the new Wiki, and probably to when I joined the game, in Jan 2004.  It was created and maintained by Dead Angel's player, and frequently publicized in the realm.  It was the way Lordships and other positions were determined.

I don't know if this is still the case, of course, but at least up until I retired Anton a few years ago, that wiki page was gospel for the Minas Ithil hierarchy.

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Beluaterra / Re: the conflict looming

« on: July 27, 2011, 02:47:51 PM »

The deal you speak of did not exist, as Enweil offered to help DoA and Riombara as soon as the monsters arrived.

There may not have been any official whole-realm consensus on such a deal, but I know for a fact that the monsters were told that DoA and Riombara were good targets by someone high up in Enweil (though I don't remember who).

And, knowing that, why in the name of Great Cthulhu should we have agreed to any kind of deal with you?  Why should we have trusted anything you said?

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Beluaterra / Re: the conflict looming

« on: July 25, 2011, 12:26:17 AM »

OOC, I believe it

That's too bad, because he made it up.

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Development / Re: Retention Revisited

« on: July 23, 2011, 08:15:07 PM »

o.O France still = White...?

What do you think they are? Asian?

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Beluaterra / Re: the conflict looming

« on: July 23, 2011, 05:09:49 PM »

I would not count the kills of the Light as Riombaran kills at all. Because the Light considered the realm sitting on its ass to be more "pure" than the realm fighting tooth and nail the monsters.

Are you really still that thick?

It's about purity. Not about strength.

The Light would have praised and lauded a realm that allowed themselves to be destroyed rather than ally with any of the invaders.

They considered anyone who joined with the invaders to be part of the problem.

Plus, there's the whole "unwilling human sacrifice" bit that parts of Enweil were into.

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Development / Re: Retention Revisited

« on: July 22, 2011, 03:09:52 PM »

Would any realm really have anything better than "Uneven"? I'd imagine only the smallest, poorest realms would approach "Moderately Even".

I don't know; it'd be an interesting thing to investigate.

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Development / Re: Retention Revisited

« on: July 22, 2011, 03:07:05 PM »

Seems only marginally useful. If you have to send someone to a wikipedia page to explain the math behind a term that only a statistician has ever heard of, then it seems a bit pointless.

Median may be better. But again, how many people will understand the difference between average and median? I'd say keep it simple, and use terms that any player wanting to join will understand.

Well, if I were to implement the Gini coefficient, I'd probably just display it as "Income Distribution: Very Uneven/Uneven/Moderately Even/Very Even" or something like that.

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Development / Re: Retention Revisited

« on: July 22, 2011, 02:40:44 PM »

Would it be thinkable to code the Gini coefficient of a realm?

Given that the one who would (most likely) be coding it hasn't a clue what you're talking about...probably not