Surrender terms for wars in Illyriad

And yet the city itself does not retain advanced materials or trade units like caravans or traders. I wouldn't bet everything in a hub that it will survive account destruction.

@Epidemic: As I've said in other threads, I believe this war is a break with Illyriad's prior tradition of gallantry. We are discussing the results of obliteration because alliances have now put that option on the table. I also believe that future conflicts will not happen between alliances; everything will immediately escalate to the mega-alliance level, which will ensure the focused destruction of opposing accounts, starting with the weakest links (and not necessarily alliance leaders or warriors). In other words, Illyriad will come to resemble most other MMORTS, where the biggest guilds and confederations can dictate all terms, backed by the threat of destruction. Broken Lands won't change that. In fact, I expect it to accelerate the phenomenon, since power on new servers depends primarily on critical mass.

I think what we will see in BL is far greater nucleation of alliances and that the PvP side of the map will be split in half based on the current meta-alliances.

Caconafyx wrote: I think what we will see in BL is far greater nucleation of alliances and that the PvP side of the map will be split in half based on the current meta-alliances. However, rather than turn Illy in to a.n.other MMO I think it will stagnate the game into a spiral of self-destruction. Once monster hubs of aligned alliances take shape I think that not only will there be less war as the power will be with the defenders but also the tournaments will become redundant as each alliance that has claimed a region will just sit on their tourny square. When even friendly combat becomes impossible I think Illy will just collapse

Sir A wrote: the fact that some alliances are choosing to fight until their total destruction means that they don't care what the terms are.  Its just annoying that some of them choose to cry in GC about their cities getting wrecked when they chose to fight to the end.  You would think someone who chooses to fight to the end has come to terms with what that means but I guess not everyone has.

again, this false dilemma. am i the only one who remembers Hathaldir suing for peace without surrender? there are middle states between war and surrender; they occur constantly irl, whether or not illy has ever made use of them. rejecting surrender terms is not the same as choosing extinction unless the victor wills it so.

Epidemic wrote: Why are we talking about accounts being wiped out and forced to restart in the newb circle like it's an everyday thing? ...and some of you still think this is a better Illy. Go find a real wargame and leave Illy in peace!

Edited by ES2 - 19 Feb 2014 at 01:14