Catostrophy

Every nation is an ERP nation. Pretend otherwise and get a rude awakening.

Cheerful Catman

There are many reasons for this, though they can't be attributed to any singular aspect. Granted, the Australian colonists did not exterminate the entire aboriginal population, and there was no unified or organised campaign against them. It was down to individual efforts and small, unaffiliated groups who had such little regard for aboriginal life that they classed them on par with animals. The government's only involvement with said atrocities was that they did nothing about it, which obviously in this case is just as heinous. The only 'successful' (not to be attributed as a positive thing, mind) extermination of an aboriginal population occurred on the island of Tasmania. Ironically, the location of the only concerted effort to protect aboriginals from the colonists at the time (and vice-versa) was conducted. Despite this, the colonists still continuously killed enough of the aboriginal people that their populations withered away, or they died in exile on remote islands.

Also, they huffed the gasoline away. 

 

Yes, but now have 10 high elves, ten dark elves, and ten wood elves. Now have them all attacking one-another, all getting angry at one-another, and all getting pissy with one-another in L-OOC and you have a recipe for a disaster. I know this could happen, because it has happened. This isn't an environment that entices new players, or encourages good RP. Granted, our communities aren't generally idiots, rude, or looking for an OOC conflict. But if you smack flint and steel together you will eventually get fire.

I'm not claiming to have any solutions for the applicant slowdown or player retention. I'm a Socrates, not an Aristotle. I just know, from experience, that what you're proposing won't work, and will drive groups further apart.

@zaezae That may be true. But if a group in RP (and possibly OOC) are incapable of getting along, do you think it might be counter-productive to push them all together? That just seems like a mine for salt. Server compression just makes people want to spread out. That's been proven to occur each and every time we have smaller maps.

But we've tried that before. Even before the Kalenz-mandated 'unity'. It doesn't work. Too many people pulling in too many different directions, all with very different ideas of what is good and bad (OOC, too). Plus, the humans love themselves some empires, duchies and fiefs. One city would tick them off considerably. If you want elven unity, you're going to have to find a way for all the disparate Elven groups to simultaneously stop hating one-another, respect one-another's cultural views, and somehow not turn the hypothetical city into a warzone. Forcing people together will only make them want to break apart even more.  

And also, don't put the plateau thing on all of us. Very few people in the community were in on that plan. It was one guy who performed the world-edit. 

https://www.lordofthecraft.net/forums/topic/136473-community-collaboration-tldr-magic-guide-for-non-magic-users/

BrandNewKitten specifically made a thread for this.

^^ ... but won't get it, because the nations are separate for a reason.

The fellow on the right is "Dan, the radical dude, bro of b-ball and college drop-outs."

A cannonball does not need to breach a wall in order for it to be destabilized and collapse. You ought to look for facts outside of that "Loose Sestertii" scroll. 

After Mog decided it to be so, yes. Weird decision honestly.

Many thanks, Birdwhisperer.

Space, you aren't, and never have been, in any capacity, funny.

I'm nobody, VL. Don't worry about it.

To be fair, that's kind of titchy for a high elf, VL. And there can always be genetic outliers in different races. I don't think I ever minded when wood elves or dark elves were taller than my character. Just inform them IC of their increased likelihood of arthritis. 

It was just called "Ceru," Supremacy. And it was never a high elven settlement. It's leader was a wood elf. It was just 'considered' one by the high elves due to the varying exoduses and the majority high-elven population it had. It was later annexed by the Oren Empire and turned over to the White Rose.

What?

Go to the city. Be there. Attract people. Charm them. Get closer to them. Absorb them. Consume the homes. Assimilate the stone. Become a castle. Rule the land. Dance hard techno.

Glory to the Republic, motherfuckers.

Never mind. Apparently it lags.

I don't, Bipolar. Thank you for the smarmy douchebaggery, though.

We're like the Hebrews crossed with cockroaches. We're still here, motherfuckers. We're still here...

Bubble, bubble, toil and trouble.

I never noticed the Elervathar sigil looked like three Haelun'or crescents.