The diplomacy forums - sweet nerd rage drama available at your fingertips, even during work hours!
Strategus is way more fun on the forums than actually playing in a battle.
Not gonna lie but in so many battles I'm in I think to myself "Damn, if we pull a win out of our asses here this will make for one hell of a shitpost." That's all the encouragement you should ever need.
Take our last fight against the pseudo-gobblin faction for example. A hilarious win, but no shitposts from anyone. Wtf guys...
Usually the shit-posting is similar, but geared much more towards making fun of cRPG skill, performance in battles, performance on the strat map, etc.
Since no real significant faction v faction battle (talking 1k+ each side, armed at least) has taken place and over activity is down, shit-talking takes the form of personal insults and haranguing about past events.
You see, some of us have been shitposting on this forum for years. Some haven't, but have a deep intrinsic desire to shitpost. We find it very difficult to completely refrain from shitposting, even if nothing worthy of shitposting has really been done, resulting in lackluster shitposting. You know, outside of the OPs of certain threads.
The shitposting will improve in relevancy and quality both when people actually DO shit.
i promise that i'll make shit happen in 3-4 days dont worry the rest of you guys can just keep chilling lol