Ah, but Firesoul, you forget Gook is trying to undermine the disengagement rule. He doesn't care what the effect is. He doesn't think that far ahead as he is a fool. Or he is a machiavellian. Just so that it advances his little agenda is his only concern.
Perhaps he is more clever than you think Lepton and his agenda involves debate to examine all these aspects for a better understanding at times playing devil's advocate. Look at all the new ideas that have come out, and the next thoughts regarding old ones, is this a bad thing? Could this be the sinister ulterior motive you are looking for?
Maybe he does prefer the old way and just wants people to consider it again by saying his peace, seems to me like he just wants to understand how people feel and make us substantiate our beliefs about which way is the best way to go.
It isn't like he's the first to promote his own view on the forums here in hopes of influencing others to consider a different possibility. In fact isn't that what you have been striving for? Just something to consider before calling him a "fool".
These are good points, Chuut. I think it should also be noted that we really have covered all of this before during the past 2-3 years or so. I guess that's probably why I haven't been as active in these discissions as I have been in the past. I've just lost some of my interest in continually re-hashing the same issues over and over. I haven't yet seen a single new idea or something we haven't already tried offered up in these threads.
I do, however, thinks it's great that we do continue to talk about this stuff because sentiments about certain things change over time. That's the main benefit I see in this series of threads. It's a good way to measure the current opinions of those of us that are left. It's not groundbreaking, but it is useful, I think.
My post in this thread have been relatively short because I keep getting interrupted by RL...heheh.
While I have come to not particularly care for fleets on servers, especially on those where a disengagement rule is in effect, I do think it is possible to work them in from time to time. I believe that if fleets
are allowed, they should be restricted by a CnC structure (which has worked fairly well in the past...this is also not a new idea). It might even be a decent idea to restrict the number of players who can field such fleets as an extension of the "FM"-style rules we've used in the past.
As some have mentioned, even the ability to deply fleets isn't fair amongst all the races because of the rdifferences in the way the AI behaves with certain weapons. It seems to me that increasing a player's access to the "easier" weapons makes it that much harder for those races who don't have it so "easy." I think this is something that must be given consideration.
Urgh..RL is hitting me again. That's it for now...another unfinished thoughy...heheh...
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