Can I win a war with everyone? Advice?

[Maltrease]

A few call of the winds can take out most lower Neifelhiem PD. And if they invest enough to withstand that... then you just drop something tougher or use a conventional force to wipe out the PD investment.

[Ironhawk]

Gandalf Parker said:
Id do the guilt-trip thing that was recomended earlier...

No, don't EVER guilt-trip someone in a multi-player game. If you try and play with someone's real-world emotions to win a virtual game you are seriously asking for trouble. MP dominions games last for months and people get really invested in them. I, and many other players, have learned the hard way that you must draw a very strict line b/w your in-game persona and your out-of-game self. Don't mix the two - EVER!!

[Dedas]

And what if you lose, what if you get fooled and get your legs pulled? It's still a game isn't it?
I say try to take control of your emotions. If you isn't prepared to lose by, say backstabbing inside, how can you ever manage real life?
Backstabbing someone real life, however, I think is cruel and morally wrong. Inside a game it is not, that is one of the reasons why we call it a game - because it isn't real life. We are only pretending to be someone or something. It is not you who get killed or eradicated, it is your nation or pretender God. I say don't mix those two together!

[Ironhawk]

Right, that is what I'm saying. Keep your emotions out of the game. Don't try politics with another player outside of the game in order to influence the results in game.

[Dedas]

No, I'm saying don't let your emotions run away with you inside a game if you can't control them.
Someone deceiving the pretender God you are playing is not breaking any rules (if you've not agreed on something else with your mates), it is a possibility given to us by the game in form of message system and spies. And it is not restricted unless we want to. However, if anyone insults YOU PERSONALLY it is a whole different matter. But that is by no extent a game rule being broken, that is an unwritten - and to some extent written - law of real life society.
So please remember: You ARE not your pretender God – you are only PLAYING/ACTING him.

[llamabeast]

I think this is one of these discussions where everyone agrees with each other.

[Dedas]

Am I misunderstanding him? If that is the case I'm sorry.

[Gandalf Parker]

Thats something that everyone can agree with.
On the other hand, I also tend to hear it along with a comment such as "but I didnt trash the non-agreesion treaty and attack you in that last game. It was the god I was playing. That doesnt mean you shouldnt trust me in this game."

Since not everyone is roleplaying trust, that doesnt tend to work as well as "dont get mad at insults to your god". Some people will ALWAYS keep an agreement no matter who they are playing in the game. So that tends to ruin it for those that want to treat such things as a role-play item that doesnt carry over from one game to the next.

Gandalf Parker

[FrankTrollman]

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[Teraswaerto]

If there are no victory conditions one can offer allied victory, even to several nations. The game is never going to reach the "x has ascended" point anyway.

Not fair? Maybe, but if you kill everyone who's not a part of the agreement, who's going to protest? The dead have no voice.