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it's okay for a city to be angry at an order, but a common theme throughout this war was that there wasn't really much communication coming from y'all's side. there weren't troops on the monolith in mamashi one moment, then there were. no public post, no messages to ivoln's order that i'm aware of, etc. certainly, the issue with the monolith later became clear, but we were already in pretty deep. i'm not gonna say we always have to spell things out for people on the other side, but if you want something done (e.g. removing or containing the monolith's influence), it helps to tell people what you want when you start swinging at them over it.

this is really why i keep saying the parameters were never clear. first it was troops on a monolith, which was a city versus an undefined opponent for unknown reasons. then it was city versus city. then it eventually became 2 cities versus whatever targets were convenient. we had no avenue for response because, at every stage, you didn't give us a target. you didn't tell us what you wanted in the beginning. then, you kept widening the circle of things you'd hit without communicating (y'know, RPing) anything to the new targets.

can you justify it from a RP standpoint? clearly, yes. does that make it actually fun as a game? lol no. it's all well and good for you to say you'd be fine with it in some hypothetical future, but many of us have watched y'all (including omei's order, if not you specifically) be very much NOT fine with it when it actually happened. it's not unreasonable for us to form expectations based on players' past behaviors and directly stated limits. that you, personally, profess to have a greater tolerance doesn't really mean you've got carte blanche to do whatever without regard for anyone else - but i frankly don't believe you've got that tolerance, considering the way you've come after me OOC in response to a completely IC action you didn't like.

this is the point of mechanics, however. if we had proper mechanics to guide conflicts, all this baloney (on both sides) would be utterly irrelevant. limitations are good, actually, and can enhance creativity. i strongly disagree that we should continue to eschew them because they might foreclose some unknown possibilities when they would definitely help us to avoid unnecessary sources of bad feelings.