It's time!
WillyPedro
I found myself writing longer and longer comments on others' newspapers so it was only natural to create a newspaper where to express my opinions without feeling I was invading somebody else's World...
Main issue
We are playing a game in an eWorld, I see a lot of players getting too carried away with RL patriotism. It is good to have a sense of patriotism but we should look more at what makes more sense to advance in the eRep. This is not a trivial issue, a good part of what makes this game interesting IS the connection with RL countries/cultures/patriotism!
So we need enough patriotism to stick with one eCountry to make the game viable and interesting (as an individual ePlayer it may be better to switch sides to advance more within the game), but we should not over do it to the point where we do not make decisions that are the best from an eRep perspective...
So considering all this, is the peace treaty with PEACE really our (eUS AND allies) best option?
I'm not a USA citizen in RL, English is not even my first language. But I'm a true eUSA citizen and I'm going to stick with it!
United vs. Divided
No matter what happens in the next few days with the war, the eUS has been affected by a big division that got ugly in many media fronts. We witnessed a lot of personal attacks that were driven more than anything by players that seemed to make no distinction (correct me here with the words...
🙂between RL and eRep... This will leave us marked and will be a hinder to the (rebuilding) process that will start soon.
The peace treaty argument
At the time I'm writing this the eUS is down to 6 states with things not looking good in the one open battle. So it is safe to assume that by the time you read this we'll be down to 5 states... That means that if we are to pay back for all the taken states but 3-4 it will be a lot of gold going to the PEACE war chests...
The counter-argument is that with all those recovered states we can generate the revenue to pay for that gold AND more. (I do not believe that this will work where we will be able to pay AND generate enough extra revenue to make the eUS strong enough). In 4 months what may well happen is that we get attacked again and fall back to the exact same position we are at now... With PEACE getting even stronger (because these 4 months would be an opportunity for them to keep advancing in other fronts...).
What if...?
We lost about 8,000 eUS citizens in this war. If we assume that we can give those eCitizens orders and that they will follow them for the benefit of eUSA, WHAT IF we ask them to move to allied eCountries where we can negotiate to share from the resulting profit of a massive eBaby Boom!?!?
Wouldn't that help us better to get stronger for a massive counter attack were we can get ALL the states back (or at least the ones that make the most eSense...)
My 2 cents...
Comments
you do have a point
i found myself writing "Cool story, bro" on others' newspapers
Our ultimate goal is to get back all the lost eUS states. Which way to go is what we are discussing. What will make us get there faster and leave us in a stronger possition?
My challenge to the pro-peace treaty eCitizens is: if PEACE has an opportunity to wipe out the eUSA and that was their initial objective when this war started, if they would take this peace treaty it must be a really good deal for them (specially if they are to give up wiping us out when they are so close...).
@WillyPedro: Don't treat PEACE as a block, this is an error of your analysis. The attack to eUSA was for different reasons, from different countries and within each country. Challenging PEACE "to the bitter end" may not be the best strategy. Wisely divide PEACE may be. And one of the possibilities for this is to JOIN PEACE. No matter how crazy this sounds to you now.
@MoredanKantose: We've already seen the divisions within PEACE, they are even offering to fight with us if we start RW right now. Your point is very valid but in the end they are still eNations that are at eWar with us and that would get gold for the states that they would give back, states that they can take back from us using that gold after the 4 months truce.
Joining PEACE may be America's only hope, I agree. Of course, that would mean that it would then become EDEN and Canada's duty to finish you off instead.
So, is eRussia going to get back on the "peace treaty table" once they conquered 22-23 eUSA states?
Are you fighting to wipe eUS out and that is why the gold is not worth stopping the fight?
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@WillyPedro we dunno whats going on, seems we will accept peace after conquerying all states except jersy and florida, but government keeps silence
The attack in NJ shows that PEACE is still more united and coordinated than what some people think...
It is stupid to pay for states that you win in resistance wars. Renounce the treaty. Death before dishonor!
It is not about death or dishonor (respectfully), it is about eSense...
I honestly think that it makes more eSense to fight (even if we loose) and spend the same gold in RW than to pay PEACE for those states...
The treaty is no longer on the table.
The Russians have made that abundantly clear by attacking New England and New Jersey.
The good news is are range of options have become much more narrow.
1) fight
2) die.
The only question is whether the attack on New Jersey is a feint to draw us away from Spain.
Voted and subscribed.
im from the UK. patriotism is not an issue for me 😛