Propoganda War

[Dalwin]

Stopping time is easy. In fact, I just did it twice while you were reading that last sentence. Of course you had no of noticing since time was stopped.

Prove that I didn't.

[jehardiman]

Originally Posted by Dalwin To the OP, I share you concerns after seeing the attendance at the last few PBs. I am still hoping it was just a bad day or times for most to attend and that we will see better on the 2 PBs scheduled for this evening. Populations are down substantially overall and France has always been one of the smaller populations. It just seemed like there were more of us when we were on a winning streak and enthusiasm was high. For myself, I will not make the first PB tonight but will definitely make the second. I will show up in my best boat as always, even if that means losing 1 dura on it. Vive la France Pierre la Fleure

Originally Posted by Dalwin In fact, seeing Spain having recovered to their current state after the almost total apathy seen during much of last cycle (and at a time when populations are down to boot), should be taken as an encouraging sign by all. Recent low attendence by France may just be a cycle and not a sign of imminent collapse. Pierre la Fleure

I know that for myself and some others in our society we see it as a cycle thing. I believe the reason we didn't see Spain last map was because they were building their fleet. After Spain brought thier SoLs to the 1st PSJ battle, a some of us realized that we, France, didn't have enough big ships or the proper character alts to command them. I've decided not to actively seek getting into a PB until I have a ship with at least 12 16 lbrs per broadside (not that I won't be ready to take an invite if I have contention there). I do not want to be out-ranged by 150 yds again, I'd at least like to be able to fire at the enemy SoL before I'm sunk.....

If you look at the game mechanics, there is the rush to 50, then the slow grind to build enough econ to support a true SoL. Right now, I know several players building up alts to either generate the Econ or have the levels to command SoLs. This is going to take time, and just looking to our society's size, I estimate it would take us 2-3 months to generate enough surplus to construct a single SoL for one of our members. To put it in perspective, a 6 man group, playing 8 hours a day, would each need to grind a net 116 Db per minute of playtime for 30 days to afford the 10M Db cost of a single 1st rate.

It may take a while, but we will get there.