Not so Natural Enemy...
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by Chris Carnage
I know I'm not the only one who finds the Natural Enemy rule a bit disturbing. Nations being required to legislate racial hatred against another country or miss out on a training bonus is just plain wrong in my book. One of the more tasteless aspects of game mechanics, no?
Until now we've managed OK with it. A 'mates agreement' with eNZ who might be considered 'natural allies' would let us get the bonus, have some free training wars and not get bogged down in the moral aspects of the law.
Well now we're taking ourselves a bit seriously with this latest proposal. I mean seriously, Chile is our natural enemy?
I'm the first to admit I don't know much about Chile, either in RL or eRep. Apart from a cursory knowledge of the human rights abuses of the Pinochet era, and the massive earthquake and rescue of miners last year I am totally ignorant. I'm even more ignorant when it comes to eChile. They have a population a little over 1000 people and an MPP with Bulgaria. I don't think we've ever fought against them directly. It might be possible we've been on opposite sides of MPP stacks, but I don't recall them ever being discussed when it came to eAus military or political fortunes.
There's just not enough there for me to hold any kind of grudge against Chile, much less consider them our only "natural enemy". This rule sucks, there is nothing "natural" about it. We might stick our heads up our....errr....in the sand and blame game mechanics but that would be disingenuous. We have a choice here, and we are making the wrong one. Unfortunately I can see only a small handful of congress members agree with me on that.
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Natural Enemies...LOL
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WAR O/
having someone who can't really be conceived as your "natural" enemy in relation to RL is still much better then the opposite case... like Cro-Srb, or Indonesia for you I guess...
We're doing it for the bonus man, chill. Try not to take this game so seriously.
Anyway, from the chilean side, the fact that just a man or a whole congress wrongly agrees to fight a country, gain an enemy and destroy all the relationships with other countries its extremely... imo, wrong... like this chilean "FAIL"; anyway, this law was proposed for one of the failers chilean congressman and supported by bored congressman who only wants war... well, i didnt voted and i know that not many chileans know about NZ... but well, this is a game, and the game sucks...
peace
@Balmain - this ain't srs, you should see me when I'm srs 😃
It's a game, mate.
@BeDva - you're right, that would suck even more but tbh in RL Aus and Indonesia are friends
@infin - inorite, don't worry, we all play our own way 😉
War IS P fun.
I CAN'T WAIT TO FIGHT!
RAAAGGGEEEE
Finally a war we can actually win lol
You shouldn't take that Natural Enemy thing too seriously, we can always change it, it's just yet another law proposal. The reason why we decided to declare Chile as our NE was pretty simple to gain bonus in our attacks.
No...natural enemys is a bad description. We are currently at war though.
Maybe the Admin ought to just shorten the name to 'Enemy'. In war, there is no race, no nationality. There's just your buddies and the enemy.
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