The balance of power...

All things come to an end but until then, things will have to be done differently, no doubt. Don't make the mistake, though of believing that most players even care. The majority of players aren't interested, aren't affected nor will they.


EDIT: Infected by the affect effect.

Edited by abstractdream - 13 Aug 2014 at 11:49

My crystal ball is in the shop, but based on their conduct thus far, the answers to your questions seem to be:
None.
and
No one.

If anybody were to try, they'd be hunted to extinction because starting from scratch is fun. ;)

What usually happens in conflicts like this, one party feels stifled or slighted by their "overlords" and rises up to cast them off....
...only to become even worse than the overlords they replace (always in the name of being better, of course!)

And they always seem to display a fair bit of righteous indignation when anybody points that out.

Abstract is right though - most players will keep their heads down and just not get involved in politics.  For them, it won't make much difference, but it appears we're headed to a climate of "open season" on agitators.  ;)


Edited by Velociryx - 20 Jul 2014 at 00:03

I think the time is past when any one alliance or even confederation could "control" Illyriad -- or even just one continent of it.  Personally I think people would be wiser not to try.  I think in the future there will be multiple competing and countervailing forces.

Power in Illyriad is now multipolar, held by multiple alliances in a confederation with one another. Previously, it was unipolar - concentrated in one alliance. 

One massive, monolithic block of permasat accounts is giving way to a large confederation of permasat accounts. If the devs ever halt the rampant multi-accounting in this game, none of the emperors will have any clothes. A system cleanse would return power to alliances consisting of active, engaged players. That is, incidentally, where the power belongs.