That's not actually true, though. Back when a couple of people in Gaudiguch were 'interfering' regularly in Glomdoring's stuff, there was a fair bit of outcry and demand that we go "hammer Gaudiguch" to teach them to mind their own business. Instead the leaders ended up agreeing to mostly leave well enough alone, but when a couple of people from an organization get involved there's a lot of push / desire to hit their entire organization back to repay the favour.

If an org you were defending decides to attack you, I'm pretty sure that people will be quite happy to return the favour.

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If you're going to buff my trans skill, don't try and make the useless part of it seem slightly less useless. (Solution 3)

(Not that there's a useful part, mind you.)

You're missing the point. Namely, that it wouldn't be two orgs.

Let's form an example. Hallifax decides to start attacking Glomdoring. Celina starts attacking the air plane regularly. I imagine there'd be plenty of Mags who might come help defend just so they can kill Celina, assuming Hallifax would be permitting (I'm pretty sure some would come even if the leadership weren't permitting). Given the passage of time, there is a strong possibility Hallifax might not be raided by Magnagora anymore, etc.

Though, of course, if Arte decides to mindblast Mags who come to fight Celina, you could count that all out.

Read the rest of the post, where he wants it to be a 6-way free-for-all (and not different alliances). Were it to go to such a state as desired, it would be basically everyone picking on Hallifax for the 'lulz'. And / or Gaudiguch.

Even for different alliances, though, it's not like it's the "smart thing" to do for everyone involved.

I never said Othero would get what he interpreted as ideal, or that smartness has anything to do with it.

Come on, you don't want to have a teaparty? I'll get on my alt and everything.

The other part of this question that seems to have been ignored, is that there is no logical reason for Glomdoring to stop beating up on Seren every once and a while, and no bargaining chip any intelligent Seren politician would give Glom to make them stop attacking.

I, too, enjoyed the cities-v-communes time, but there's no strong reason for Glom to go back to it, and no internally-acceptable way for Seren to force it to happen.

EDIT: No reason for Mag to ally with Celest, either.

My replies were entirely based on his, though; you'll note that I referenced "when organizations stop banding up" (the 'six way free-for-all').

So I'm not really sure what your first reply was aimed at, then. The entire response-scenario was based upon them no longer working together once they had "achieved their goal".

I've always thought tea ceremonies are rather nice, it's just gathering the people for it that's hard, and that the required items are more expensive and difficult to obtain than those for a herofete (which you still need to literally drag people to in order to perform, and have a more obvious and noticeable benefit).

I mean, damn, sometimes it's hard just to get people to come to the Throne of Urlach for a free dose of the best h/m/e blessing in the game.

If you want to really buff tea ceremony, reduce tea needed and make the minimum people needed two.

Someone add this solution please.

All this talk of alliances and wars and other nonsense! All I want to do is go socialise with Hallifax arts people.

Re: Brewmeister. Let them craft from cartel designs and make it possible for their brews to double or triple when being made, like portions/spatula/spoon etc do for Cooking. Then everyone's happy!

Well, it still suffers from mediocre marketability like Tinkering does... though not nearly as bad.

You know, you can see quite a lot of them at the World Stage.

C'mon, you know you want to drop 75 wood comms into a horn and put enchantment charges into it so you can summon more weevils in a room.

If artisan comm requirements were halved or less, it would fix most of what's wrong with artisan and some of what's wrong with tinkering in one swell foop!

As a trans brewmeister, those were the only ideas I could pull out of me head (I just really really wanted a beer stein)

I was putting up a commune shop, purchased and stocked it with my own gold, specified it was for the commune's benefit and profit, and someone tells me, "I hope you aren't expecting compensation for it.".

Things like this make me wonder why I bother spending my RL time on a character who selflessly does things and gets insulted for them.

Take into consideration who said it.

I still wonder how a demigod cook with Brewmeister chosen for their second trade would function in a cartel.

That'd be fun.

Oh and Lendren I have been to the World Stage, but they don't have all of the ones in the library. I needs more Linaeve and Nariah stuff to devour.