What would attract you to a corporate faction?

[Jinx]

no - not really....

war bankrupts countries, nowadays more than in far away history.

back then, you had the "spoils of war" - some loot which not only payed the soldiers but also added a pile of wealth to the winner.

if you come up with germany. - germany was poorer than bankrupt. - had they won the war, they d gone down like a rock in water. - war stresses the expenses on a state tenfold. - yes - there are some that may profit from a war - but thats hardly those that run the country. - ( what was the depts of the USA today again? - and how much will they get out of the war effords made in iraq? )



but thats not the point. - the point is - "yes" i agree... a cooperation can bounty an independent trader. - it makes some sense, too. - the common john doe can also bounty the whole nation of rheinland. - ( for whatever silly reason... maybe a rheinlander killed his family - a very popular reason among people writing bounties )

but your argument *appears* to be : "harrass non cooperate traders, so that the harrassed traders join the coorporate factions"

thats as good a thing as "i beat you up until you join my gang of bullies" - questionable to a large extend. a system of rewards is usually more successful.

players are reluctant to change when they are forced to change. - players are more willing to change when the change comes from within - from themselves.

an interesting thing about players is. - those that changed usually become extremists of changing others. - ( much like people that once smoked and turn non-smokers are much fiercer about enforcing a non-smoking law than those that never smoked from the start )


when you force players to change, you must not be surprised when those players try to change the system - so that the system they were forced to change to becomes the system they want. - when you make a player change to a system he likes MORE - he ll be happy in the new system and won t change it ( or at least not in a detrimental way )

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