Dear community,

I'm a little bit concerned about the development of the ingame & oog "policies" that we are facing at the moment. For me it defines a new "game style", which is hard to handle for me.

Butch raised an "old discussion" on the petitions boards and this here was Denis answer:

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To Butch the Slaughterer : We embrace all new tribes and nations, we just fight until very end usurpers and raiders which abuse nations and castles as base for raiding attacks with no intention whatsoever to create a longterm, stabile RP with those nations.

Your attempts to pose as Macedonian are very funny , you arer a tribe switching nomad and Macedon tribe ... I mean, really, this is just a phase of yours, and you will bail out eventually from Macedonia too, we will just try to speed it up a bit ... as you are enemy to Rome, why would be let you be safe very next to our borders. Defend if you can. If not .. well stop whining about it ... it's not me that have chosen you as enemy, you have chosen to be enemy of Roman Republic. If you have a problem with your marry band being small, then make a bigger one and stop abusing position of Council Member flaming about us ...

This is so pathetic: "As long, as Romans and Teutonians suppress the the diversity of the gameplay by hindering young and little nations to grow or deleting them, by playing like the policemen of this world"

I really know about our ingame history but now we are reaching a new dimension

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We embrace all new tribes and nations, we just fight until very end usurpers and raiders which abuse nations and castles as base for raiding attacks with no intention whatsoever to create a longterm, stabile RP with those nations.

Hm... If I understand Denis right he says that it would have been okay if "real" new players would have revived the Macedonians but not players with a certain ingame history. What does it means? Any Ex-Sarmatian is not allowed to be part of a new (or re-) opened tribe?
This approach of clan custody is realley new to me. If 5 real new players arre opening a tribe and I would join you damn the whole tribe? What is about the new Macedonian and Sicilian player?
They did not know anything about your little vendetta but they have to bleed?
There are NO defined rules for the opening of a tribe by the engine and terms/rules - So, your "rules" a little bit new - You will need to have a process that defines that new tribes have to ask you if they are allowed to settle here or there...

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Your attempts to pose as Macedonian are very funny , you arer a tribe switching nomad and Macedon tribe ... I mean, really, this is just a phase of yours, and you will bail out eventually from Macedonia too, we will just try to speed it up a bit ... as you are enemy to Rome, why would be let you be safe very next to our borders.

It was you moaning about changing locations/tribes - Now while we are finally settled it is also not okay, for is royal highness. As already mentioned we are economically not able to chance the nation for another time. So, this will be our last home for most of us.

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Defend if you can. If not .. well stop whining about it ...

True! If you can't defend yourself you'll loose - Your permanent accusations that we are whining leads us to the next point:

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it's not me that have chosen you as enemy, you have chosen to be enemy of Roman Republic.

True! When we started the war we chose you - really, you have been the chosen ones! We started the war because of the assumption that is not so bad for a war game to have a war.While working together with the Samoyeds at this time, it was clear to us thet the Teutons would jump on that train. What we did not know that we will face a "coalition" (seen no RP of something like that) of Romans, Egypts, Hellenes, Etruscans and Teutons (at least the Raurici). This is the most of the active nations and the active players.

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...whatsoever to create a longterm, stabile RP with those nations.

Hm... I believe that there has been more macedonian and sicilian RP than others - Okay if you count the usual "hello new tribe" or "Why are you at our borders" it is maybe equal. Please be fair with that - Without the Roman RP's and a bit of ours there would be nothing.

My "basic problem" is not to loose a battle or a castle - Finally it's the basic behaviour of defining "new rules" and "new definitions" by your majority. What I see is a war game without wars in the future. Count the numbers and calculate how long it would take to raise a real resistance.

The main issue is that things are taken "personal" and that there is a mixture of ingame, oog and RL - issues.