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Originally Posted by Raiel
I took this on faith, but he was most certainly wrong.
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You had to take it on faith? Where were your scouts, while his angels and elemental kings and undead gods were falling to half-dead Vanheim, one after another?
I made the same assumption you did, without whatever information Maerlande has given you: T'ien Ch'i was far too strong. But instead of giving up, I attacked, and found out how wrong I'd been. That's how it works, you know? You do your mental math: "They have roughly X resources, and I only have about X/Y resources (where Y is pretty big), so I can't possibly beat them." And then you fight them anyway, and if they were indeed too strong you learn something, and if they weren't, you learn something!
Yeah I know, nobody wants the unwinnable slog. But until secretperson disappeared, there was no future slog in my view, at least. I don't care whether T'ien Ch'i has a thousand gems, or a hundred thousand. I actually fought that nation, and until you stopped me, I was winning. Moreover, I saw no evidence that that wouldn't have continued, if I could have afforded to keep fighting. Trust that before you trust your mental math!
BUT now of course we have a different player, so maybe the game's result really is no longer in doubt--or wouldn't be, for somebody who knew everything about all our resources and skills. Now, maybe you know enough about Maerlande's skills to accurately identify an unwinnable slog in our future. But I don't. So even if I weren't idealistically attached to the idea of playing to the end (which I am), I would still want to keep playing. The issue is still in doubt for me. So I don't even need to invoke idealism; I'm just gonna keep playing.
I reject the draw, and invite the rest of you to keep playing as well. And I remind you... that's all I have the power to do.
If you want to stop, then does it make much difference to you whether we all agree to stop? I mean, you're free to stop anytime. I can't pretend you'd be rupturing some ideal; we've already lost a central power, after all. The balance is way off, one way or another... I think maybe if secretperson came back, and if you guys would fight him for a bit, just to see, then maybe you'd change your minds and we could keep playing. But that's kind of a stretch. You've done your part.
Anyway: If you can find any reason to keep playing with a positive spirit, then I invite you to do so. Otherwise, thanks for playing, and please give your nation to the AI.