OOC Thread and Chatroom 2

[TinCow]

Please be aware that in order to declare neutrality in a Civil War, you must break your oath to ALL other Senators involved in the Civil War:

Individual Senators may unilaterally remove themselves from a Civil War within one turn of the Declaration of War that brought them into it by breaking all Oaths of Loyalty that tie them to any Senator involved in the War and by publicly declaring Neutrality. Neutrality cannot be claimed by a declarer, a target, or any Senator who has been involved in a PvP Battle during that specific Civil War.

This includes vassals. Thus, Northnovas has not yet properly removed himself from the Civil War. If you have a vassal in a Civil War and want to leave it, you must either break your oath to the vassal or have the vassal get out of the Civil War as well (via neutrality or Peace Treaty).

All of this political maneauvering on the declarations of war (which we have never experienced before) has made me realize that this system is a little bit cumbersome. I think we can streamline it a bit by falling back on our feudal system. At the next Senate session I will propose a Rule Change that will make declarations of neutrality and Peace Treaties signed by any Senator also apply to everyone below them in their vassal chain. This will make the process a bit simpler, and it doesn't really prejudice anyone because any vassal removed from a Civil War in this manner can just declare war again to get back into it if they really want to.