This thread is pretty much the reason why I won't play strat again. I always tried to get into it but I never could. I could get past the mechanics, and the fact that it's browser based and you literally have to be attentive to it at a moment's notice (this part is probably the worst, there's times when I can't look at a computer for days because I use one for work extensively). I can get past having to stay up to 2AM to get to a battle when I have to wake up at 6:30AM every morning to make my commute to work. I can get past having to do math to calculate how much silver I'll make, how fast I will move, upkeep and all that shit.
What I can't get past is how fucking retarded people get over this. It's literally mind boggling how seriously some people take it and the lengths they go to. The shitposting, abuse of mechanics, and general ass-hattery makes strat beyond off-putting. This community was much more chilled and relaxed before strat came along. Now it's just split into several camps of people that hate each other over pixel castles and villages.
Yep that's a real prevailing attitude over Strat, and honestly lots of games like it. So much time you need to invest in getting anything done, esoteric knowledge needed to not make mistakes, and level of commitment to getting everyone to deposit troops, coordinate PP spending in every fief, anything involving goods.. takes a specific kind of person to not instantly get burnt out after a single war campaign. The same kind who make all the shit posts about it. Spergs.
Strategus as is should be called Spergagus. Who wants to sperg the hardest, the longest, and who wants to have the least amount of fun at the end of it all.
Of course spergs will rise into power in any persistent game, but ideally most casual but interested players who prefer fighting over trading and diplomacy will get more than enough self-sufficient gold/troops to continously and worthlessly send well geared 500~ ticket armies into the territory of those spergs to make them rage and give us battles. Make it easy for any Strat player to make or rebuild their own.. warband.. and maybe it won't turn into mega alliance spergdom and afk wasteland.
