I haven't really heard anyone say they enjoy the invasion anymore other than victor's post. Most people I've talked with say that it's pointless. You gain a region, they take it back and then do even more damage. There's no way to even recouperate from your losses. I'll give you an example. Aletha in Creasur has now sqashed the region and torn down the fortifications. The daimon said that if we try to do rebuild our walls, she'll destroy it down even further plus kill off RC's. We have no ability to stop her from doing her threat. Our choice is as follows:
1) Never rebuild it and give up everything we fought for
2) Rebuilt it just to have Aletha tear it down plus a RC
We can't stop them. It's impossible. If every single player controlled unit worked together (which will never happen), they'd still not be able to defeat the Netherworld. They can just recruit and reheal and be twice or 3 times stronger the next turn. If you check the stats, you see the CS of the realms have fallen quite a bit, but the Daimons seem to only increase. In the last couple months, it's gone down by a third.
It's true that the controlled regions to player may be best in the game. However, the money strain from it is causing it where we have to rely on family wealth to even pay units quite often. With all the various takeovers etc, we don't get gold that way sometimes either. So, it's creating a vicious cycle of not enough money to recruit and beat downs by an enemy who can seemily always recruit.
As far as why we see that as what you allow is that GM's are the responsibility of admins. What you allow them to do is your will. If they did something damaging to what you view as good to the game you would stop them from being a GM.
What's the difference between 100k Daimons in every region and 6k Daimons when we can't get get 6k Humans to come to the fight? It's not a lack of desire on my part. After one round, we are severly defeated, the Daimons regroup and get stronger.
Yes, the admins/GM's can do anything they want irregardless of the code. They have the deck stacked in their favor and laugh at the players who try to follow the game code and win. It almost reminds me of us being ants and the admin/GM being a kid with a magnifying glass. "You can beat us... just take it away from us. You can do it. I know you can't realistically, but keep trying". There's nothing to draw us away from as we can't really leave our regions much anymore. There's little we can do but wait for the next onslaught. This isn't a matter of just fighting the good fight. There's no tangible end game and no end to the invasion. The netherworld has won. It's taken over and no is playing with the other realms like a kid poking a dying sea creature on the shore. If we get too close to getting back in the water, we get poked back towards the sand.
BT is meant to be a struggle, that is what it is. In fact, your odds are WAY better than when the mist hit. LITERAL DESTRUCTION that NEVER ended. Watching the map slowly get swallowed.
Actually, that's what it is right now. The map has been swallowed up. Every realm who has opposed the Daimons has been shrunk majorly. The only way to win, actually, is not to play or just give in to the Daimons. Then, your realm can grow.
It is obviously not impossible to beat the Daimons, adventurers have already killed them for you.
That would be true if they would stay dead, but they don't. I enjoyed the epic battle to kill Jactosh against all odds. But after his death, he rose again. All the resources and attempts to end it just mean nothing. It's hard to have a sense of achievement when nothing has visibly changed.
Probably spark some interaction between your fellow players and enjoy roleplaying as a character fighting against the odds and maybe you'll see why we all like it. If you don't get any interaction, join someone else, because obviously they don't want your help. (A ruler's goal is now to have as many people on their side to defend and attack, if they just let you be bored... That's like torture).
We've tried, but people are tied of role-playing getting defeated every time. It's the same story over and over again. Ask anyone who has been around my character and they can tell you we stand in defiance. They are begging to expand and we keep trying so we can survive better. But I see people giving up on Rping the same defeat. Players going more and more into just 5 minute players.
I guess if Anaris thinks everything is okay in BT and this is the way it's supposed to be, then so be it. I'll accept it if that's what he feels. Is this true?
