Popular Post Restius Posted May 7, 2017 Popular Post Share Posted May 7, 2017 Being that I've already deleted my nation and said goodbye to my alliance and a few others, I figured I would officially announce it to the rest of PnW. I've had a lot of great times and rough times with everyone here. Shout OutsI've enjoyed getting to know many of you, and loved our conversations! To Cornerstone: I still remember getting that first mass-email from BritishDude and Les Paul Supreme about a recruitment challenge they had to get old CCC members back together. A lot of us answered that call, and I spent a lot of time learning with Rob Holmes during those opening days. To Aristide and Rache, It's been a privilege to see each of you continue to expand your knowledge and love for this game, I pray you, and everyone else in Cornerstone continue to do your best to keep the Cornerstone mission alive during these difficult times! To the boys over at the Coalition: We've had a lot of fun in the past, and I thoroughly enjoyed getting to know you all, especially Shakyr and Bollocks! Learning how to create a cross-slack channel was a good time! Moonpie, we've had some great chats about a lot of issues, both in-game and about real life, and I often keep you in my prayers! I hope you and the rest of the VE community continue to do well! Partisan, I've enjoyed our conversations about the miscellaneous things we've discussed over time, I wish you all the best on your continued future! Steve, I still feel horrible about our demands during our fight with ya'll, I apologize for my part in the debacle, and I wish all the best. Alex, you've made a lot of great improvements to the game, and often have to deal with a rowdy crowd, I hope you continue to develop and update the game, and look forward to a potential return someday. The Good and the BadThings changed, really changed. Our community as a whole didn't stand up for GPA or other neutral alliances when they were attacked for their play style, and I think that really affected things. Who knows how many of GPA's players quit after that war, but to me that was a signal that something wasn't right, but I didn't do anything about it. Actually, the first sign probably would've been the Proxy War, when Vanguard took the brunt of destruction because Mensa and Rose wouldn't actually fight each other. But since these events things continued to just decline, the community as a whole just started losing flavor. There's only one neutral alliance left, and even they are barely neutral. We've ostracized an entire playing style, and continue to go after anyone else that doesn't meet the status quo of kill or be killed. Sure the game doesn't have a neutral option, and to me that's a flaw that needs to be fixed. Now we have a player who had become the "butt of everyone's​ joke" and nothing is done about it. Furthermore, there are now ads publicly shaming him after he expressed frustration and quit the game. Seriously? where's the fun in that? I was involved in something like that once, and I felt horrible, I look back and wonder how I did something like that. Yet now we are going even further to continue to shame someone, that's not a community that we should be proud of...ever. If you guys don't think this would classify as cyber bullying, think again! You have run a player out of the game, regardless of the circumstances. Again I can guarantee you that isn't the first time, and unless things change it won't be the last. I do hope to come back and see more moments when this community binds together. We've done it before in the past when we all banded together for Digimon and hoisted the flag of Ireland to honor the loss of a player, we showed our solidarity for Paris, and we even helped contribute to a gofundme for one of our other players who/is was combating a disease. This is community I hope to see more of, and I'd love to be a part of. This is the Politics and War community I will remember. The Game FrustrationsLikewise, the battle system of this game is extremely frustrating to me, the chances of "winning" an actual war are slim, as long as a player is active it's almost impossible to win. The way units fight is annoying, air can attack everything, but navy can only attack navy or infra, and ground can only attack ground. It doesn't make sense. Combine that with what in my mind, is annoying that alliance mates can't actually help each other out aside from declaring war on the opponent, and only if they have slots open. Alliance wars should be alliance wars, not hundreds of nations going at it. Find a way to have a way for alliance objectives within a conflict, say the first to get so many points or whatever...There just needs to be more in-game politics period. Treaties could actually have game impacts instead of seeing this all be done over things like Discord. War needs to have more rewards. You get some money and resources, but what a way to actually occupy someone for a while and limit their interactions? Wars can last forever in this game cause we just start a new round. LeavingSo I'm leaving (have left?) and I hope to return someday to see things different, between the current state of the community and the game frustrations, there's no fun in the game for me, and especially for my play style. There's no reward in "winning" in the game, #1 slot for alliance or nation will just make you a target, there's no point in trying to excel, which is sad. I hope to return someday pending some changes, but until then, I wish all of you a happy future, and hope that somehow, this community will become stronger through the recent situation that has been blown out of proportion. All the best and God bless, Restius 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avruch Posted May 7, 2017 Share Posted May 7, 2017 Farewell and good luck, Restius. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Placentica Posted May 7, 2017 Share Posted May 7, 2017 I appreciate the comments and best of luck to you IRL. I hope the other CS government have come to a the same perspective now that the shoe is on the other foot. While neither is right or wrong, losing a war tends to either embolden a nation who learns and grows from it or cause that nation to just give up, not wanting to play after such a score setback. It's for this reason usually you find out if the game is for you only after losing, not winning. 3 Quote Hello! If you don't like this post please go here: https://politicsandwar.com/forums/index.php?app=core&module=usercp&tab=core&area=ignoredusers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aragorn Posted May 8, 2017 Share Posted May 8, 2017 Hope to see you come back. I agree with a lot of what you said here. Best of luck going forward! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prefonteen Posted May 8, 2017 Share Posted May 8, 2017 A game is meant to be a fun timesink, Restius. If it no longer fits the "fun" criteria for you, then you are making the right decision by omiting it from your life. Thank you for the shoutout. I've enjoyed our chats. All the best to you in real life . 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kurdanak Posted May 24, 2017 Share Posted May 24, 2017 Super late to the party, but I also hope that you do return. See you around, Restius! War Doves are back in (That terrible game that is totally irrelevant and I shouldn't be bringing it up anyways):TE, so perhaps we'll meet again soon enough. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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