Reploid Productions wrote:Morndul wrote:Honestly, this makes wonder why R/D was even considered worth preserving at the time. Obviously banning it would've come with it's own set of enforcement issues. If raiding were banned, you'd have to determine what counted as a "raid." The issue of defining "native" would be just as pertinent as in the old rules. Every time someone's delegacy was contested and someone brought it to the mods' attention, the mods would have had to determine if it was a native delegate or a raider delegate. How often would this have been a real issue? I guess we can only speculate. I guess Mr. Barry must have really valued the metagame some players had created.
That's exactly why we never even attempted to ban raiding. How do you tell a raid from an internal coup? How do you tell a raid from an exile regional government returning to coup the place? Or an internal coup with external support? Or an inter-regional spat? The only way to ban raiding would also end up banning regional politics entirely, which kinda runs counter to the "political simulator" thing.
There was also the possibility of only banning the mass raiding organizations themselves rather than the actual act of a raid, but that may have just forced them "underground." If successful it may have situated things so that raids were only done for political or ideological reasons rather than as a sport. But again, own set of problems.
