House territories

[Xoria]

Liberty and Bretonia are already enforcing their rule in Magellan and Cortez, and nobody complained at the time. In fact, this was hailed as one of the greatest RP successes of Disco by many people, so I find this change in attitude rather surprising.

You know what I find surprising? That the only faction that has consistently and constantly maintained a presence in Magellan and Cortez for over a year found out about the LOLTreaty when it was posted as a fact, instead of being asked to provide prior perspective about something that has an enormous impact on its activities. You should interpret the silence as an expression of profound contempt for your lack of courtesy, consideration, respect, and conscientiousness.

I must admit that I'm stunned at the backlash to what was actually a rather well reasoned bit of RP. We had discussed for weeks how to handle the Gallia situation, and we had arrived at a temporary lockdown until we sorted what happened.

Discussed among yourselves, who are the primary beneficiaries. Not discussed on these forums where everyone else impacted has a chance to share your prior knowledge and provide input about how it impacts them.

How would you like it if the Corsairs planned a systematic invasion of Bretonia for weeks ahead of time, and then without any warning descended into every Bretonian system in force, overwhelming the unsuspecting BAF and shutting down all trade? You'd be crying for Admin intervention faster than a cat hits catnip. One of the factions involved in the Treaty of Curacao backed out of even considering participating in a planned event last summer because they weren't consulted prior to the offered invitation being extended. But they had no problem laying claim to another faction's territory to their own benefit and the other faction's loss. Hypocritical much? You bet.

This is all powergaming because all you have to do is write a fancy script and voila it's fact. You don't have to deal with any real world consequences. You don't have to actually win anything against a hostile opposition. You don't have to outmaneuver an opponent. You don't have to make any material sacrifices, or risk any loss, or even have to face the potential of failing. All you have to do is write a fancy script, and then smugly declare that you now deserve the benefits of what you did not have to work for in any meaningful way.

Garbage in a gold plated trash can still stinks.

Both of these instances are signs of a profound selfishness and disregard for everyone else who is impacted by these decisions. As such, they deserve no more respect than what you have shown towards everyone else : zero.

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