Ok just got back from work, was a slow night so I spent some time thinking about it.
My basic view remains the same, that if the admin has planned a course of consequences, in this case the use of Wild Geese, whether by a set of defined circumstances or by a judgement call, and everyone was aware of this possibility and raised no objections before the server start, the admin by acting on this and sticking with the origional plan is changing nothing at all thus there is no mid server change at all. The phrase pre planned mid server change is actually a very poor wording that I used previously since in actuality there is no change, and this can be verified easily enough by pre server posts announcing existence of the geese.
Now, where I have reconsidered a bit is in regards to the circumstance of the taking of Organia. While I see noting wrong with a secret condition existing, I can, as stated before, sympathize and understand the frustration of those taken aback by this developement. If they choose to withdrawl I would have no scorn for them in the least, yet I would definately prefer that they stay. The fact that the Coalition, or at least some pilots within had figured out that there might be consequences to taking the planet, suggest that this is not entirely out of the blue, but I do agree that such secret conditions deserved a more clear warning in some form or another. I personally don't find anything wrong with the way he did it in a game sense, but in a community sense I can. What I find wrong is the potential for strife within the community that such an occurance might and apparently did cause. The idea itself was in my opinion simply brilliant, a very new and creative way to achieve some balance, and provoke interesting strategies. But as brilliant as this was, it was also in a way idiotic, in that without a more clear warning the inevitability of flames caused by this would potentially outweigh the brilliance of the plan itself on the campaign level.
Dizzy was kinda caught between a rock and a hard place, and likely never saw the rock. In order to have an interesting developement a certain amount of secrecy was demamded, but the same secrecy must be given up to a great extent in order to have a more harmonious reception by the various parties. Perhaps a little less secrecy still might have been able to pull it off on both sides, perhaps not.
As for further discussion of my principles from your perception, I'd be happy to have your views on the subject at some later date on MSN my tutu clad amigo, but I don't think we need bore the hell out of the rest of the community on these forums about it as I'm sure they really have very little interest in it.
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