[quote name='jerdge' timestamp='1328745867' post='2916951']
You are saying that people like being treated like crap because otherwise they'd feel "bored", and you're implicitly making the (totally illogical) claim that players able to be nice with one another can't fight, insult, scheme and overthrow one another in the game [i]only[/i].
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I don't think you understood my comment or the context it was made in.
I was saying that having to be nice about other peoples characters makes for awful gameplay. That is what we are doing here, judging peoples characters and how well we think they did as gov. It was the same for WAE and WPE. It has nothing to do with treating the player crap. If I can't point out that X was awful at running his alliance and ended up getting it rolled because of his own incompetence without upsetting the player then that makes them way too emotionally involved in what people think about a fictional character.
Just because our forums aren't directly part of the CN website doesn't make it not part of the game.
[quote name='jerdge' timestamp='1328745867' post='2916951']
You're confusing players with characters
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No, that's you.
[quote name='jerdge' timestamp='1328745867' post='2916951']
I don't get why you think that we need to be mean and unfair for the game to be "entertaining",
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Conflict makes CN interesting. Part of conflict is fighting and insulting (you yourself said that). That is all this is.
[quote name='jerdge' timestamp='1328745867' post='2916951']
I doubt you'd say that players not ready to shoot down other players [i]for real[/i] can't enjoy doing it in a FPS game. Please stop being that silly.
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That doesn't even make sense.