Wait, no. "you have nothing to do with someone" just because he's not your mechanical ally any more? This is not human. This is Age of Empires level of diplomacy.
In BattleMaster, there are a number of things that are controlled by game mechanics.
One of those is who your allies are.
Claiming that you won a duel when the game says you lost is forbidden.
Claiming that your character is a Duke when the game says you are not is forbidden.
Claiming that someone is your ally, or treating them as your de facto ally even when the game mechanics say you are neutral or at peace,
especially when the reason they are not your ally is because
making them your ally would put you over the alliance bloc limit, is forbidden, and is a circumvention of game mechanics.
Yes,
this is new. This is not the way things have always been done.
No, I do
not expect this to be the way things work forever.
But right now, when the alliance bloc restrictions are still new enough that we still have realms acting like they are part of a massive more-than-half-the-continent bloc despite not being allied, extraordinary measures are required to ensure that people understand that the restrictions are
serious, they are
real, and breaking them has
real consequences.
