Has no one considered that maybe the m8s, occitan, and GOBBLINS (please start including Hospitaller and Acre in the list of large factions) really just want to get some fiefs in their hands and some revenue (so that we can get to at least like 25 body armor and falchions and shit in battles) instead of fighting stupid peasant battles one week into the game? Like why is that such a hard idea to get into your head instead of being a contrarian jizz sock screaming about how nerds aren't signing up against their friends to fight in -2 one gold armor?
Keshian you just don't understand that people aren't signing up against each other because they don't have such furious stances about this as you. We aren't such hardcore nerds that we shit ourselves when people don't play against random factions in 200 ticket defences. That's the core difference between us and you. Most of us just see peasant battles and go "eh, fuck thats a waste of time, I'm not playing that". It's not that we have any type of agreement at all stopping us from playing for each other, except maybe just mutual understanding that none of us (the people actually taking fiefs) really wants to be playing these shitty peasant battles. When we actually have the ability to fight fun battles we will start attacking each other.
Oh, and the following numbers are from following the Strategus IDs of the larger factions on Strat to see their actual number of members:
Occitan - 30 members
The M8s - 28 members
Acre - 28 members
Hospitaller - 25 members
The GOBBLIN Empire - 24 members
I know that several of these factions are going to war against each other, or against other factions slightly smaller. Some have asked me for help to attack other factions. In some cases 2 factions have each asked me to attack the other. The party lines are much less designed and finalized than you think. You just have an outsiders view because for the first time the people in control of the greatest amount of players all don't really talk to you.
You're being obtuse... is it deliberate?