(04-27-2016, 02:32 PM)Omicega Wrote: In short, the reason why Gallia hasn't done, isn't doing, and won't be doing half or more of the things in this thread is entirely because of gameplay-related reasons.
Kusari players and the storyline devs (understandably) don't want us interfering in Kusari during its new civil war arc. Bretonian players don't want to have their entire House go into exile, and the less said about the privileged position Liberty enjoys as the main 'protagonist house', the better.
A whole lot of the stuff suggested would be something I'd personally enjoy seeing, but I'm also well aware that certain others who would be affected greatly by their implementations have an entirely different position on things I'd like to see happen. Having Kusari become an actual vassal/satellite state of Gallia and taking control of its foreign policy is something that I think should have happened from a story perspective, but I can see why it hasn't happened from a gameplay one. That said, in my headcanon Kepler and Galileo should have already become warzones.
With regards the whole issue of Rheinland, I brought a very similar proposal of assistance/cooperation/informal alliance up to one of the previous [RM] leaders, and was promptly told by him that the story devs had intervened with him in private and told him that it wasn't going to happen. Go figure.
And this is why we can't have nice things.
Meh. There's so much awesome potential that is lost because of this, to be honest. It's saddening that any real conflict, any real loss of any house beyond what Rheinland and Bretonia once had, is gone and Gallia will inevitably fail because of, what comes down to story devs dooming Gallia to never get past Bretonia. Which honestly, Gallia should have steamrolled everything by now.
Oh well.
Story devs have say, we can only dance in their strings. As a friend recently told me.
Disco went from "We can do that." To "no, that's against lore." Go figure.
Disco never was player driven (and I often consider it good, mainly during reading some proposals here and there), nothing changed in that. And current dev team is at least communicationg and even cooperating with playerbase, that´s something what was rare or didn´t happen at all in past.
Such major change as wiping whole houses from map can have serious consequencies including killing vanilla factions. It would remove on of the qualities Disco even advertise - that this mod is quite close to the vanilla game.
Also, don´t forget that Gallia is so almighty just because some storyline dev once wrote few numbers. It does not mean Gallia should be entitled to inevitably rule (half of) the Sirius one day. Major changes has to be done in a way to improve things and make them interesting so the players will feel motivated to play. Not just because they look cool at first glance.
Then why bother motivating to log Gallia when it's destined to fail, destined to never have the chance to outmaneuver Godhouse Liberty. Why bother logging Liberty if you're going to win InRP anyways? What's the point? You win already. That's the sad part of the Liberty-Rheinland War. Rheinland won a majority of engagements, and should have taken Planet Houston Orbit and drive Mississippi to the New York Gate. Instead Rheinland lost.
Liberty never loses. Personally, it's about time the Godhouse is taken down. No house is untouchable. But sadly, every time Gallia had a chance, it's shot down by Story Devs.
One reason GRN never was fun to lead. InRP I had the largest fleet in history, inRP I commanded thousands of capitals. But every time I was devastated by Bretonian/CR/etc. Being the Big Bad, with already bad stigma attached...it's no fun. Omi's done great things with the faction, but it's disheartening to hear that Story Devs shoot down some creative ways at taking over.
It might not be player driven...but every house has lost a war. Liberty needs to lose by now, to be blunt.
Also, Blodwyn. I'm happy Seychelles is still in effect. it was the first major thing I honestly did with GRN, and it's a nice thing to see it still going. The mining nerf though...that's dumb :|
