Sociologist wrote:To put it bluntly, there was a degree of tension between the "strategy" players (characterized especially by the pirates of old and some of the clans and empires) and the "pure" roleplayers (characterized by those who try to create "Middle America" in Cantr, even though it doesn't work). The latter group won out and got what they asked for. This was always a specific conflict of ideas between particular "oldies" in the game and the one bunch, it seems, managed to shout louder than the other bunch--perhaps because they specialize in noise-generation generally.
Perfectly put. The pure RPers are taking over in population, both in the player base and staff. If Cantr turns into another boring RPG, it will be due to this. Cantr sometimes forgets it's direction, methinks.
Guy Fawkes is certainly viewed as such, but had the catholics succeeded in overthrowing Tudor England, he would have been viewed as a liberator. And look what Shakespeare did to our collective memory of poor old Richard III. Shakespeare, let's face it, could teach Goebbels a thing or two when it comes to propaganda.
I think that their arrangement is one of the bright developments in the game, becasue they have a profound effect on the development of the region.
