I have nothing to hide. My name is OPK for Old Penitent Knight, read my signature.
OPK is my secondly made account. My first one was Mandarins31, an ex-leader in VIC.
I was one of those who had the idea about making a new kind of confederacy. So i know what is the root of Consone.
About my personal story, i left the game in last July, i think it was little after Jasche announced the creation of Consone on the forum, because i was too buisy IRL and it had to last for long. I came back on my alt, OPK when i had a bit more time, and i was astonished when i saw H? declared a war over Consone, it was in October.
I admit that i didnt really participate in the project of Consone much more than building up the concept and giving ideas, but i can tell you how i thought about this future organisation when i was first creating it's concept with the other leaders of VIC.
Very basically, we noticed one thing: alliances all around Illyriad have confederations, but when you follow the links of the confederation of alliances, you can see it generally goes in all directions.
Alliance A could be confed with Alliance B, alliance B confed with alliance C, and alliance C neutral with alliance A but being confed with an alliance D, which might be at war with A.
While logically, you could think "the friends of my friends are my friends", so that alliance C should be confed with alliance A, cause C is confed with B which is confed with A.
"The friends of my friends are my friends", friendly alliances should make groups of confederates, each alliance being confed with each other. Crows already do that, but maybe could it be interesting to see if we can have more intrication between the alliances of a ring of confederacies. Sounds very exciting!
That's the root concept of what was then called Consone.
Consone certainly lacked of some organisation, maybe some players did some mistakes... i wasnt there between July and October, but i know my mates, and i know what were my and our aims. It was having fun in a prosperous alliance and a prosperous confederacy where we would develop friendship under the banner of a ring of confederacies. No harm intended to anyone, and we uphold to compete between friends during official tourneys. It was also planned (and some have been done) to create our own tourneys for players in the ring of confederacies (we had ideas for very funny games), or even share those tourneys with external alliances, all that with attractive prices. Well that was one of the plans we had for this confederacy... you may think we are "pink flowers" it all turned around fun and friendship... i know from personnal experience that there is nothing funnier than a friendly but strong competition between friends, with fair play and respect.
This was the root of the ring of confederacy then named Consone. An exciting project which would have certainly benefit to a lot of players in and outside it.
I personnally had much respect and admiration for H? leaders, who did so much for this game, notely by wiping out White, creating an atmosphere of peace, guides and calculation sheets, and the still best begginers alliance, T?. Why on earth would we have wanted to compete with H? for their leading role over Illy while they were doing it so well, permitting us to have projects like Consone?
Though, I admit i wanted our alliance to be able to offer H? a fair fight during tourneys, would have been exciting to offer a real competition to H? one day.
A game is made to have fun, and that's what we wanted to work on. We thought we could bring the game to a new degree of funnability, at least for the people involved in the confederacy, but for others too.
Call me a dreamer or a fanciful person. Now i think we all were.
But it's a game, why should it be like in reality where we are all against each others following our own goals, which are the mask of our own profit? Why couldnt we be dreamers and make a game a different place than reality? Think about it. Yes again, i am a dreamer and a fanciful person, and i hope this wont change.
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