Guy wrote:I don't have particularly strong opinions on recruitment by sinkers, but some feeders felt strongly enough about it to suggest a treaty to ban it completely, or responding with counter-recruitment, or several other ideas that were initially floated. Certainly, it was enough of an issue to have a Conference about it.
Again, Osiris' intention was to recruit only from two Feeders, without any regard for how those particular two Feeders felt about it. Recruiting from all five Feeders was an unfortunate error, and we don't intend to recruit from all five Feeders again without the agreement of TEP, NPO, and TWP. We don't care if TNP or TSP agree to it. We would be happy to participate in a conference if the three Feeders friendly to us would prefer a conference setting, and if TNP and TSP are invited to participate, that's fine by us. But ultimately we're only looking for agreement from the three Feeders I've cited. If that agreement doesn't come, we won't be further recruiting.
As a side note, counter-recruitment is not a very compelling deterrent, to be honest. The Feeders aren't going to have anymore luck with respawned -- or in TRR's case, ejected -- nations than we do. This idea that we could be doing better with getting respawned nations active is confined to the imaginations of some Feeder politicians, and isn't reality. No one has anymore success with respawned nations than we do, which is why most user-created regions write off Sinker recruitment as a waste of time and resources.