Quote Originally Posted by God Emperor View Post
I agree with you ATPG.. however there was nothing in the game that encouraged roleplaying.. and that is a pity because that could have made the game more interesting. My character, (which I imagined as our current pope???) , had a personality which I often take when playing games with political feuds; a greeedy, oppertunistic, manipulative, power hungry bastard.. I didn't hesitate for two seconds when ATPG was lying down, so I backstabbed him openly, and I hoped for an alliance between my faction and the populist; no need to ally myself with people who can not stand on their own two feet. Then Diamondeye, for reasons I simple could never understand, decided to attack me when we had ATPG at his throat. . At that point I had no choice but to crawl back to ATPG claiming how it was the evil populists that backstabbed me and I was merely a victim of their foul plots. . from a political point of view, this was a move that tied myself to ATPG as I could not make a backstab attempt again.
Your coorporation at that stage was words-only. You used your consulate powers against us; We'd like to ally with you, but you needed to make the first move, and you never did. I actually called Romanic's night actions off you and onto Pizza because I wanted to give our coorporation a try - it never got to anything real; You kept drawing points from us. We were the weaker faction at that point, we didn't have the ressources to let you sap from us and not hit you back. You needed to attack Pizza all-out, not half-heartedly (or not at all). The opening for coorporation was miniscule, and then our hand was forced.