Pretty much every person who made Strategus entertaining has quit and instead we have a new breed of passive aggressive sperg leading clans. So unassertive that they can't even bare to hit Attack in an online video game because of intense anxiety as they think about the troops and gold they are going to lose, yet at the drop of a hat they will sign up for eachothers battles to try combat their most hated enemy, the one who *gasp*.. is using up their internet troops?????
Yeah this game sucks. I think more RP would fix things though.
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But actually, there
really is a lack of RP nowadays. Not just the shitty internet stories in italics, but also the fucked up nerdy narratives that factions imply via their actions, equipment, diplomacy, etc. I think this is symptomatic of something--some bitter degenerative internet disease that's stricken our mod. AIDS maybe. Nooneplaysitis. No one takes any of these wars seriously enough anymore to construct little imagined realities or faction/personal identities around them, in part because they can hardly be called wars I guess. That, and the playfulness seems to have left things, though I could be projecting.
It just seems like no one takes Strat seriously save those few who
do, and they kinda do so a little overmuch. In a not happy-fun way. The mod used to be like a bunch of giggling fat neckbeards frolicking in an glittering sandbox, but it now seems to be more like two or three angry neckbeards in diapers flinging their own feces at each other in one of those cheap, green plastic turtle sandboxes that poor white people keep in the grassy spaces between trailer homes.
