> Throughout g-2 history, there has always been someone who proclaims,
> "This is mine! Touch it and die!" Most of the time, it is a piece of land,
> a boat, an inn, or some other location that can be garrisoned or guarded,
> but now it seems that the Borg proclaim that they will attack any shipping
> in the Camaris Strait that doesn't contact them. This strikes me as a
> brilliant new marketing strategy. Not only do they plan to deplete their
> forces against non-aligned, no-hostile forces, they obviously don't care
> whether they alienate potential customers by attacking these neutrals.
If we didn't care we wouldn't have announced it.
The problem is that in a fluid fast moving war it is difficult to
find out all the ID's of the enemy. So if you are zooming around at
high speed trying to find the enemy and engage him you have a
problem. The easiest way is to just set HOSTILE ALL and put neutral
orders in for the neutral forces you know of.
We aren't saying don't come into the Straits, we are saying "hey guys
this is a warzone, mistakes happen, let us know you are coming and we
won't kill you by accident"
> As a new player in southern Provinia, I had planned to do a little
> exploring by ship. However, since I'm in a warzone on land and now there is
> a warzone on the sea, it seems apparent that there is nowhere to go, so I'd
> better stay in this nice cozy little safe haven.
Give us your ship ID and you are fine.
> Well, I say to anyone who says I can't travel where I will, "Nuts!" I
> don't mean to say that I wish entrance to the Crimson Citadel or whatever
> castle the local alliance owns, I simply feel that noone owns the sea,
> although I may be in the minority with that opinion.
No one owns the sea. We certainly don't want to. However we are paid
to restrict Lords shipping in the Straits and we will.
BTW we didn;t decide to put the forces into the Straits, The Rimmon
Muskateers did. We are jut the forces they chose to put there.
> When reading through the Times, I run across many warnings to "Stay
> away from so and so area! Anyone not contacting me will be shot at dawn!"
> Such blanket threats strike me as insecure and threatening, but rash
> as well. Do you truly intend to strike anyone you see in your area? I know
> my lone noble and his 12 oxen are a threat to your manhood, but please,
> don't
> try to justify it to the world by saying your national security was
> threatened. Just go ahead and say, I was bored, so I whacked someone who
> got in the way.
I agree about paranoid rulers. If you aren't at war there is no
excuse for closing borders. The BoRG wholeheartely believe neutral
and non-aligned nobles should be allowed to move wherever they want
in Olympia and chase their own personal aims as long as they don't
endanger the local rulers. And one man and some oxen ain;t about to
do that.
Over one third of the Olympia factions hold no land which probably
means they aren't a member of a land-holding alliance. There 112
factions deserve to be able to move around and quest/explore/whatever
without every local ruler or alliance feeling threatened.
If lone nobles threaten national security it can't be much of a
nation.
Mordekai
Marshal
Brotherhood of the Red God