A Discussion on kingmaking and community standards.

[Trumanator]

Having a discussion about this with Arch, I left to get some dinner, and came back to find this, which I consider one of the most passionate defenses I've heard. I feel that it would go a long way to explaining motives, so I am posting it below.

18:07 archae_vanjarr> eh, the game was epic... why vets are less likely to be pleased with this than noobs is that we all know the draw of the vast fight
18:07 archae_vanjarr> and how much time and effort we put into these marvelous constructs of empires
18:07 archae_vanjarr> it gets to the heart of why (when, sometimes) dominions is truly great
18:08 archae_vanjarr> i could play any scrub free browser MMO and try and do whatever i can
18:08 archae_vanjarr> but that's ****
18:08 archae_vanjarr> and it's why feelings fly so high with these games
18:09 archae_vanjarr> people create these vast intricate idiosyncratic structures
18:09 archae_vanjarr> and it can be incredibly painful when some *** comes and stomps on you
18:09 archae_vanjarr> but that's what makes it exciting
18:09 archae_vanjarr> *not speaking for all vets, or anything, just my opinion
18:10 archae_vanjarr> so to end a game so cheaply, in the name of a win, as it seems to me to have been done... you see the depth of my response that this is not fitting
18:11 archae_vanjarr> even though it is of course true it is hard to draw any strong line between something like this and normal diplomatic behaviour
18:11 archae_vanjarr> but, still, one can, and does
18:11 archae_vanjarr> which is why I've not seen this in any dominions game I've played
18:12 archae_vanjarr> or heard of, on these forums
18:14 archae_vanjarr> but of course it is my emotions that are wrapped up in this event
18:15 archae_vanjarr> and not all that I have said has likely been the most politic
18:16 archae_vanjarr> but someone more polite and... deferential to things, would likely not have said anything really
18:16 archae_vanjarr> for good or for ill