Talk:Future Map Game Rebooted/@comment-4363767-20141006212037

Let's set some facts about the invasion and annexation of Ireland.

1) It did not happen on a whim. I tried to negotiate peace as much as I could, but other players forced my hand and I had to invade before the peace process could continue. I like Ireland and I like playing along with them, and I did not want to invade. Yet, I felt I had no other choice and ended up doing so as a measure of self-defense. I felt the only way to maintain peace in the UK was to defend it through war, and I hated having to do it.

2) Please read the follow comment from VonBraun to me regarding control of the United States, posted on October 4: "It doesn't need to be under British control. Just take the slot of America and play as them along with playing as Britain." I was authorized by a moderator to run the United States. I did not take it on my own, it was given to me. I agree that it was unfair for me to run two countries which is why I wanted to give it up as soon as I could. Also, I feel deleting almost the events that directly preceded the invasion is cheating just as much as running two nations. Aren't we not allowed to edit or delete previous turns?

3) The invasion is the most plausible implausiblity out of anything that has happened so far in this map game. I feel that if the invasion is deleted, then all the other implausibilities must go too. Really, a Chinese empire that stretches into Central Asia and Vladimir Putin essentially reestablishes the Soviet Union while the international community hasn't batted an eye? Never mind the fact of how unlikely these thing are to occur, but where is the United Nations or NATO during these land grabbing adventures? If these things occurred in real life, there would be a shitstorm of biblical proportions. Also, the invasion of Ireland was at least partly plausible given the circumstances that had accumulated over several turns. Everything else just kind of appeared out of nowhere.

Personally, I've found this map game a complete disaster and I agree that we should start over. We should start a new map game with stricter, realistic rules, or start a new map game with no rules that is built on fantasy without interference from reality.