Sail Nation wrote:Very interesting information there. I've never seen that technique for liberations, particularly as liberations were meant to be a counter to raiding, as raiders have the advantage of the element of surprise, as well as the ease of holding onto a region long enough to password-protect it, due to the difficulty of liberations. But does this mean that they couldn't hold on to 'trophy' regions if the liberation passed - were they ok with that?
Also these campaigns as well as the recruitment cost must have been very expensive. I'm surprised that for a semi-active, now inactive region, would want to pay that much. Big investment nowadays considering their inactivity. Is it really just to hamper regions like TBH (as well as many other, non-raider regions that might have persuaded nations to move to and possibly even become actively involved)?
TI expected they'd be SC liberated either way - it was an era when doing so was particularly in vogue. It was assumed they'd try to refound eventually, so an SC liberation was a given. By doing it *themselves* instead of letting fendas do it, they got to make it a PR stunt, and if it failed to pass the SC, also delegitimize/damage the odds of any future good-faith SC liberation passing.
The WA campaigns are actually pretty damn cheap. TG'ing all delegates is always only $1 or $2. Their recruits-per-dollar of this methd was quite good. No need to TG the whole WA when you just want it to get to vote, not necessarily pass.
The recruitment, though, yes. Gest has a massive hate boner, pardon my french, for the other raiding orgs trying to clean up Gameplay from nasty elements, as well as a particularly gainful career, and was happy to fight with huge piles of cash. As I said, by best estimates, probably more than $1000 a year in stamps collectively bought or gifted, at the peak. To TI, as well as to 1-3 other regions depending on the month. Anyone except TBH
