Kumo Reckoning

The real problem wasn't, that as you say, what you said was taken as H? policy since you were a Director. It was the fact that no other H? Director ever followed up your post or statement and said that it wasn't. Regardless, water under the bridge, and congrats on your RL happenings...

"22 Feb 2014 at 09:25

Frankly I was contacted by Janosh in the early days of the confederation and while in charge of diplomacy in OCON, had grave misgivings as to the unwillingness of both to modernize their stance over the 10 square rule; which even as early as January of 2012 was squeezing new players excessively over land that would never be used; and therefore turned overtures by both down.  Because of abuse by newbs of training alliances of larger ones and the aggression by non-allied farm accounts of both; we had to take a strong stand as well in our training alliance Plantagenet.  I think that we can trace the whole of this current conflagration to the greed over the new special resources as well as the  10 space rule.  Both represent a mentality of "I was here 1st and do not have to share" & I think we need to temper that a bit.  

I think the 10 square rule should be reduced to 8 & we cease this scorched earth policy which began with Black & continued with the likes of players once or now contained in the alliance NC.  That NS (their training alli) cheers them on so often and actively participated in the dog pile on SirRazer at the start of the NC-BANE war is still troubling; as is the frequency of training alliance leaders forgetting to educate their players in basic diplomacy, such as ask first and don't attack ANY player for ANY reason without permission.  We have a lot to do to keep this a fully newb friendly game (which is why I and many of my alli-mates are still here 2+ years after becoming an Evony SS66 refugees).  I am still extremely proud to be an Illy player, but have to admit seeing GC denigrate to the likes of Evony was sad - no way I could have my grandson be playing here with me seeing that stuff.  I am glad that is turning around a bit, but the forums still have plenty of that vitriol.  Let's come to terms with the major irritants that keep fueling war, why don't we?  

The 10 square rule needs to be the first to be examined in my opinion.... I'd like to see replies to this post and some thoughts on what the irritants have been, not who said what, please?

 

; )  ... and you still cling to your interpretation doggedly . . .  it was enough to nearly cause your demise in the past  ( more calmly handled on our side than yours, you must admit ) . . .  even stubborn dwarves should be able to accept the fact that, at least on this count, there can be a clearly wrong side of an argument . . .

 

Certainly the "10 square rule" has utterly no hope of expanding,  I do indeed see the rationale for it to shrink, to the extent that perhaps even the hard coded game mechanics could be detuned a bit.  A game supported 7.5 or 8 square exodus/tenaril cap could be well supported now, and perhaps even avoid some future confrontations.

 

(Except of course with certain blockheaded dwarves)