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Originally Posted by Fuzzy
but why the need to recruit vastly beyond that core?
i understand your moral and democratic reasons (which i find a bit excessive given that this is just a game) about people all having the right to invite their friends, but this is a wargame. we cant all invite all our friends to play with us or else we'll all be in one alliance and it will be a roid initiation race.
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We don't need to, we just don't have anyone mandating that we don't. It's an odd situation (in my opinion). No one wants to be the asshole that says '**** you all, we're going to follow PAteam's arbitrary memberlimit.'
Personally, I think PAteam's memberlimit hurts other alliances that follow it more than our recruiting practices do, so I wonder why people aren't hounding PAteam (presumably because they stupidly assume we'll win by an even more dominating margin).
The current situation isn't a linear, we can't really extrapolate from the last 3 rounds that the only uncertain alliance ranks are #2 and below.
For the first thing, everyone seems to think it'd be terrible if we won again (myself included, I'd probably end up being that asshole I mentioned above if we did). Secondly, a lot of stuff (some of it unprecedented, which is awesome) is happening outside our private channel that will affect the round. Thirdly, I've got an inkling that about 20-30 of our members that plan on playing actively next round think it's going to be some kind of easy-mode. A couple of these people emoquitting can have pretty bad consequences.
While I'm falling into the standard pattern of playing down Ascendancy's chances to win next round, I do still think we have a very good shot at it. I still want us to win, and I hope the right people will step up to help us to that victory. But a lot of things are still up in the air, and the pieces aren't exactly going to fall before ticks start. Excepting the FAnG piece, I guess...