However you wish to take the information, this seems to be the main and latest key to everyone's argument that Ryan is a terrible leader when in fact he's trying to do what's best for his alliance. If I had to guess his biggest PROBLEM is trying to mix kindness into it.
A good Cybernations leader is keeping secrets from his/her membership, and holding their own political agenda in mind in all things that they do. Ryan, on the other hand. Heh, well Ryan's different. Ryan does what he wants, but at the same time I don't think he's planning ahead with some sort of political agenda that involves him at the seat of power over anyone else. This is actualy somewhat possible if Ryan really wanted to. After all of the ridicule of GDI, Ryan still has a good core membership that's atleast somewhat active.
Now Vilien, do you really think that if no one else were involved in talking to Ryan (literally, just you) that he would have cared? Fact is he either did it because:
a. He's nice.
or b. He was being threatened by outside parties.
It was just worded that way because I imagine he wrote it quickly or it did not cross his mind. I know for a fact that if you would have said, after his surrender, "Okay, well that's nice. My surrender terms now include you paying my nation 45mil and 750 tech over the course of 30 days. kthxbai" then I would have ENCOURAGED him to hit you, and probably dropped the threats. Stop acting as though your part mattered much more than being a victim, because that's all your role was. Soda asked Ryan to surrender numerous times, they ended up coming to a small peace agreement after quite a long time.
That's what Soda was, too. A raid. Just a raid who decided to fight back. In this case, no one was threatening Ryan, and Ryan (with an alliance that had less experience and size than it does now) decided to stick with fighting Soda. He didn't unconditionally surrender. You know why? BECAUSE NO ONE BACKED HIM PHYSICALLY. He received a lot of verbal support, but I don't recall anyone backing him military-wise.
Vilien, you can argue over whether the Dynomite Pact had influence, but you CANNOT argue over the fact that we made the effort, that there were threats taking place, and that alliances have backed down to us in the past who are larger, in fact, than GDI.
Whatever, as a leader Ryan takes care of his members. That's what matters. Not public opinion, not nation size, not past conflicts, it's the opinion of the members. And judging on the fact that they're still there, I doubt they dislike it.
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