I have decided to start a thread about backstabbing and gangbanging as I believe it is vital our community reaches some sort of consensus on this difficult subject.
Now, who of you hasn´t felt the bitterness of a backstab? It makes you mad. It makes you angry, you get seriously pissed and very likely you will do something emotional. At least this was my initial reaction when I was gangstered. But exactly when this happens you have to take a deep breath, count to 10 and understand that these things are absolutely neccesary. EU II MP is a game made for ruthlessness, a historic emulation of powerdynamics between countries, employing the same politics that go on in the real world even at this very minute. Morality is simply not a priority. If there is one word that defines the essence of EU II MP, it is Realpolitik. I´m not saying that you have to play this game in a sinister and ruthless way all the time. What I mean, however, is that you have to accept, even embrace these moraly unsound methods to achieve your aims. There is no fair war. In any conflict all participants try to maximize their advantages and minimize their vulnerabilities. A gangbang is not unfair or unbalancing or whatever. It is simply the consequence of good diplomacy on the one side and a faulted and / or lazy foreignpolicy on the other.
Also, what we should seriously try is not to take hostile behaviour ingame personal. We have to distinguish between what happens between nations and what goes one between players.
I might decide as France to ravage and pillage through your Spain. This does not mean that I hate you, whoever player you may be, but that I deem it in the best interests of France to do so. It is a thin red line we walk upon, it is a difficult quest for sure.
There are many inflated egos here, mine included. Sometimes they clash, sometimes friendships form but whatever the case it should not influence your decisions and policies ingame.
EU II MP is way too grand a game, imho, to be devalued by petty quarrel over trifle differences. I for one simply lust for the pure and merciless mental challenge of a campaign without any whining and played by the very best.
Now, who of you hasn´t felt the bitterness of a backstab? It makes you mad. It makes you angry, you get seriously pissed and very likely you will do something emotional. At least this was my initial reaction when I was gangstered. But exactly when this happens you have to take a deep breath, count to 10 and understand that these things are absolutely neccesary. EU II MP is a game made for ruthlessness, a historic emulation of powerdynamics between countries, employing the same politics that go on in the real world even at this very minute. Morality is simply not a priority. If there is one word that defines the essence of EU II MP, it is Realpolitik. I´m not saying that you have to play this game in a sinister and ruthless way all the time. What I mean, however, is that you have to accept, even embrace these moraly unsound methods to achieve your aims. There is no fair war. In any conflict all participants try to maximize their advantages and minimize their vulnerabilities. A gangbang is not unfair or unbalancing or whatever. It is simply the consequence of good diplomacy on the one side and a faulted and / or lazy foreignpolicy on the other.
Also, what we should seriously try is not to take hostile behaviour ingame personal. We have to distinguish between what happens between nations and what goes one between players.
I might decide as France to ravage and pillage through your Spain. This does not mean that I hate you, whoever player you may be, but that I deem it in the best interests of France to do so. It is a thin red line we walk upon, it is a difficult quest for sure.
There are many inflated egos here, mine included. Sometimes they clash, sometimes friendships form but whatever the case it should not influence your decisions and policies ingame.
EU II MP is way too grand a game, imho, to be devalued by petty quarrel over trifle differences. I for one simply lust for the pure and merciless mental challenge of a campaign without any whining and played by the very best.
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