[Official Event] The Alsace Passage - 2 Mar, 20:00 - 22:00 UTC

[jammi]

I can sympathise with that position, but I've also got to reiterate something I've said a few times in the past, which is that we won't ever decide the story's direction by PvP results alone. It leads to bad, toxic behaviour and strange results. It leads to popular factions permanently getting their way, and unpopular factions (or groups with less experienced PvPers) getting left in the dirt.

We've tried it before, and it didn't really work.

The events are here to allow people to play out aspects of the mod's story as it happens, influence details within a broader defined outline, and most importantly, have fun. If the concept doesn't sound fun to you that's perfectly valid, but we do hope as many people as possible will give it a try - with the restarts especially, there's nothing to lose.

We decided early on the battlecruiser would be invulnerable because we wanted as much chaos and as many different groups as possible. Taking the battlecruiser's actual death off the table means we can use a very important character like the Emperor, while providing a mobile objective for defenders that will definitely last the entire duration of the event.

That in turn ensures the convoy will travel the entire route, passing through many different ZoIs and allowing interactions with many different factions. It'd be incredibly anticlimactic if groups had set up large, coordinated ambushes in Stuttgart, Zurich and Ile de France, only to find massed Hessians and Coalition (for example) had immediately ended things in New Berlin.

Hope this explains things a little at least.

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