SA realms just seem really grumpy and moody, a bunch of complacent players sitting around doing nothing, never saying anything, until there is a chance of them to have a massive gang war. Looking at it objectively, the war on Thulsoma was utterly pathetic, and so is the war on Averoth, but what's truly pathetic is all the Out of Character griping coming from Astroism, why? Because we're defending ourselves, we're not rolling over and dying. Would you like the war to last a month and be no challenge at all? Or like Thulsoma, a war that lasts over a year and has the biggest battles ever seen on the continent, and has the best roleplay and contributes the most to the continent? It's ridiculous, it really does seem like SA is super pissy because they aren't getting their own way, which is to say, having everything come easy to them on demand.
Uhm well to try and keep things a bit IC, it was my opinion that Thulsoma and Averoth were not at all fun realms where to play, being the few interactions I had with them underlying arrogance and savage egocentrism. I believe my view as opposed to yours is just healthy ignorance due to not knowing the enemy realms. Perhaps Morek is not one of the most active places around, but I wouldn't call it grumpy or moody.
You call the war against Thulsoma pathetic, and in several places I managed to hear people bragging on how thulsoma was successful in drawing su much hate. Do you realize how long SA tolerated Thulsoma before wiping it out? Do you realize how many times we just ignored the arrogant and offensive tones of their ruler and their nobles? SA never decided "hey let's kill thulsoma cause it's tiny and defenseless", but you can't truly expect nothing to follow such a rude attitude against someone that is, by all means, more powerful than you.
And to unravel things more, do you truly believe that a NORMAL realm big as Thulsoma would have required 3/4 big realms together to wipe it out? I still remember how Haruka bragged regularly in her RPs about how saxons was not defeated by half the world. If you stop and think about it, you realize that the gangbang assumed such proportions because something was wrong there. You had normal realms on one hand, and something that deviated consistently from the standard gold/cs ratio. You cannot expect a different outcome, and again I stress it was called upon Thulsoma by themselves.
To summarize: the war was pathetic because a ruler of a tiny realm managed to insult basically everyone that was around it, and because thanks to "clever management of gold" they managed to muster a force that was not possible to defeat without resorting to several realms together. Where is SA guilt here, I don't understand. We reacted IC to provocations, and called upon more and more armies when it was clear we couldn't breach Thulsoma with just Morek and Libero.
About the OOC things in SA, again it's just a matter of frustration. I had nice battles against Thulsoma and I did some nice RPs there. It was fun to have someone playing the arch enemy, doing evil things whenever possible. But since all this was caused by the exploiting of a loophole, the fun was not very consistent. OOC rants can be quite common if you fight according to the rules against someone that does not, and especially if that someone brags on a daily basis on how strong they are and how weak are all those fools who still try to play fairly.
