WAR! when?

[Ramke]

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This post really irks me - sorry but I have to completely disagree.

We (GRN) are open for discussions, and now more than ever as devs respond to players, their requests and desires much more directly. I wish you could see the interactions that we've had with factions that were open-minded and approached us with suggestions to roleplay, make events, /change/ something.

I can guarantee you that things are moving because of people approaching us with suggestions, and the devs helping make that leap for progress, rather than shit-flinging from a distance, crying about "plot armour" when all your efforts are literally just shooting someone a few times and whinging that nothing happened. If you want to complain about plot armour, why not do it against a House that survives wars against two powerful, well-prepared Houses and multiple powerful separatist factions all at once, all the while coming out with a crushing victory?

Let people interact - I'm not sure how far dev tolerance is to player development, but talking together and trying to work something out that can be fun (win or loss doesn't matter here, does it?). It's the players that can incite it and the devs that can make it happen.

The only real issue is official mentality. While it can happen, many governments are either inactive, purposefully ignoring developments or just don't want it to happen and would rather have dead inactivity than conflict with activity. Usually this means that the story team has to push something to happen instead, rather than the players themselves. That's not really intuitive, at least from my perspective.

I just hope other OFLs can be as productive as the Gallic one is.

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