The True Measure of Friendship

Entry posted by WcaesarD March 5, 2010

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Our game of Cyber Nations has produced, through it's time, some interesting things. The one that caught my mind today, was inter-alliance friendship. I don't mean having friends in another alliance, but friendship between alliances.

Most treaties in this game are based off of political maneuvering and/or friendship. It occurs to me, that despite what you may think, you're probably not actually friends with that alliance. Sure, you might know 10-20 members of the other alliance, and know most of them well, but then, chances are, and this holds true of most non-micro-alliances, there are MANY more you don't know. Now, chances are they are much like the ones you do know, because most alliances are groups of like-minded folks, but you do never know.

Most often, this friendship is established government to government, and this, I believe, is the reason that we have in the past seen so many groups reailgn themsemelves. This also might not represent alliance-alliance relationships as a whole A decent example of this, is the MK-TOP relations previous to the ongoing conflict. The leaders of both alliances stated mutual liking and respect for each other, while the general membership showed the opposite. It's situations like these that make this game interesting and fresh. But true friendship between large groups of people is very rare to come by, and takes time, something that this game does not afford to many.