War game or not?

That's why everybody should have the right to do what he want to do in this game, as long as it is not against Dev's rules.

If someone like to hit weaker players, go ahead, send your army to hit them.

If someone like to protect weaker players, go ahead, send your army to protect them.

What is not allowed is if someone in forum disallow other players to do an action while Devs do not ban that action.

For example, player A play in Illyriad. He doesn't build army at all. Someday player B attack him. Player A can post in forum, asking for help from other players, but he doesn't allowed to ban player B from attacking him. Don't forget that in Illyriad, server allowed players to attack other players. Other players may help players A, other players even are allowed to siege all of Player B towns, kick him out of this game, since server allow that action. Player B cannot say that you may not siege all of my towns since server allow that. Player B can post in forum asking from help. If no one want to help him, then he has to accept that all of his town are gone.

Please don't make rules in a game, Devs make rules, not players.

The question is not whether the game *is* a wargame.

The only thing that Illy absolutely 100% *is* is a building game. Because if you sign up and then refuse to ever build a building, you can do *nothing*. So, you have to build.

After that

1) It COULD BE a war game for you.

2) It COULD BE a trading game for you. (You could actually stop building as soon as you had a trader in a Hub, and just play the trading only, and I'm sure that if I got into it I could spend longer with the trade system than I now do with troops.)

3) And to a lesser degree it could be about crafting, exploration, magic, etc. as YOU choose (as people like Scribes play it.)

Lets unpack the wargame aspect of it. Once you have decided to play the game as a wargame, you can then choose:

1a) It COULD be a PvE wargame for you. (But not with much interest at present.)

1b) It COULD be a consensual PvP game. (This is how I play it. And I can attest that this is WAY more fun that facing the steamroller of a bunch of vets.)

1c) It COULD be a non-consensual PvP game.

What is unique about 1c is that this choice alone - and it is a choice - can rob other people of their choices.

If in KP's analogy, I am presented with a toy catapult as I walk on to a beach, then I have the choice of whether or not to take it and if so what else to do with it. (I could do all sorts of things with it - re-engineer it to make it better, set up my own targets to shoot it at, whatever - or I could do something else on the beach.)

Kurdruk

PS Ander - "A boy is building sandcastles on a beach. You go and kick down his castle. You could say that it only reflects how you play with sandcastles. Others may(or may not) think it reflects who you are." That is not only true, it's actually profoundly thought-provoking. Do you mind if I steal it?