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Originally posted by Vice Admiral Ipvicus:
I just think that you made up for your strategic and tactical mistakes by making up new rules to protect yourself.
We aren't making up new rules, at least not totally. What's going on is that, like Skyblade was doing earlier, I assumed a certain amount of common sense when I wrote the rules. Again, what the hell would the point of "no one post battles when attacking a capital" be if I didn't intend for the defender to have a say? Just amke things harder for the attacker by making them go twice? That makes no sense.
Anyway, here's an idea I came up with to try to make things more fair for the Aliens:
Consider that if the Aliens were successful in capturing Dreden, that would yield a huge influx of new territory. Since a lot of posts in the main topic have been off or void lately, I suggest postponing the page 10 income (which is just around the corner) for all governments until after the battle of Dreden is over. For this interval, the HC and Dreden will be prohibited from attacking anything but the Alien capital in Sentarus, to keep them from taking advantage of this. This would mean that, if the Aliens can take Dreden before their own capital falls, they get an immediate influx of big money, to rebuild all fleets to a respectable size. I'd even let Ipvicus take temporary control of everything in the post he won at Dreden (assuming he does), move out all fleets and the Capital from Sentarus Prime to another location. This would give the Aliens a significant new lease on life, and the extra income might actually allow you guys to turn the tide. Basically, you'd get your put all the eggs in one basket shot all over again, but possibly with greater potential rewards. if that isn't fair to you, I don't know what else I can do, aside from looking at the system captures done in the meantime. I could see revoking the Dreden captures, perhaps, but I think Carno's and Rak's would mostly be legal. Also, the latest attempted attacks before you picked your defense fleet would also be void. Carno, that means you. I know you want to attack, but you can't yet, and that's all there is to it.
(edit) Added to this, after looking a few things over, the captures of Masada and Camden wouldn't really have worked, so you Aliens keep those. The Main Dreden fleet excepting Skyblade's section will stay at Deus, and the HC fleets will be at Exerd. That's about how far back they were when you first attacked Dreden, so I think that fully restores your initiative. (/edit)
Also, spl_cadet, I don't care if you're the Pirate leader, you are not a mod. There's a special exception for you in the rules about mods. As far as I'm concerned, Asriel is still the Pirate leader anyway, you're just controlling fleets in his absence.
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Ah forget it, the whole point was to take dreden, thus eliminating all dreden players, and before the hc were right on the capital's doorstep. Since that obviously didn't work out, I'll concede victory to the Dreden.
What makes you think you have that kind of authority?