Kim II Sung wrote:
Basically this. I've been wrestling with the idea of the Boad-Gate as i'm calling it as its throttling my own base and progression as well. But I cannot bring myself to adjust it because I feel the 'shifting' battle-scape if you will based on mechanics that are going too slowly is not only intended but a nice thing in general.
As pointed out. Those hovels could be salvaged, those logs could be lifted, those pclaims themselves will be eminent domain-able in closer to a week than the 20 days claimed. The players who are whipping in the stocks invested far more in grinding alts to SM than the offenders lost in biles. And being stocked takes you out of the game for (1) Hour. FFS if you can't win with 23 of the 24 hours in a day, then news flash, you are out of your league.
I'll continue to monitor the situation but suffice to say I see absolutely no issues so far. The communists are using clever, but completely legitimate mechanics based on where we are in the server and the Kapitalists brought it on themselves as has been claimed by
A) Choosing a poor base location thinking they were so tough they could be that close to town.
B) Not murdering the players who set up an operation right on the edge of it.
C) Leaving scents on characters housed at this location or somehow otherwise letting the communists know that was their base of operations.
IT should be no surprise as it has been the culture of Salem from the beginning that keeping your main base of operations out of the line of fire is half the battle. If you are prepared to 'reveal' it then you must also be prepared to defend it. If you were not prepared to defend your base via a P-Claim assault iwth a bell (I.E. no Dry Boards yet). Then why did you in fact allow the enemy to know where it was?
For the record if expeditions didn't have a single crime for 10 days, then ramped up into an all-out war from there I would be just as happy. You guys trying to accelerate the drama during a period where user numbers are still increasing and people are just now finding out about the expedition in the first place is fine with me as well but its not my intention that if you are 3 days late to the party some group has cannons and/or mechanics to shut down every other mechanic that quickly. Grind it out and be patient.
Props to Kapitalists for accepting this for the battle that it is and still focusing on the over-arching war.