I think you'll find liberty to be always with bretonia in terms of economics, so its obvious that liberty needs to have big problems, but ofcourse then it creates another problem by in-game events to the fictional universe where the characters live. For instance, I could spawn 20 caps from rheinland but it doesn't mean rheinland now has 20 caps. That's a very "relaxed" example, but when you submit a war proposal - like with what happened with liberty and gallia, you would expect something else taken away from liberty. It could be battleship "insert name" moving elsewhere which in term makes the former position more open to invasions/raids, it could be that because liberty now puts the focus on gallia that texas and other places are no longer secure and it spawns the rheinlanders a chance to conquer those places. Currently, only official factions can decide such things - and I would suggest we turn the blame to liberty, to be specific, for declaring a war with gallia but are being dishonest about consequences, or in most cases airbrush any discussion on it. Why? because they don't want to lose another place.
This btw applies to any faction/government, except Kusari - because by the evidence that has been provided, kusari doesn't pretend to have strength and they dont spawn caps because they got NO caps. This difference is vital to me, and im sure to the rest as well, and its vital for big matters and for big factions, im not talking about a bunch of zoner dreads baking cakes and are being told "its impossible that zoners can build so much ships, for x y z reason ). That's a local thing and it should stay there.
(07-15-2014, 11:47 PM)Zen_Mechanics Wrote: it spawns the rheinlanders a chance to conquer those places.
An opportunity is only one thing required for that, proper means are another. Rheinland didn't blow up two of their gates for fun, they did so because they were losing the war. Even if the chance arises, how many assets could/would they spend on attacking Liberty after that?
(07-15-2014, 11:47 PM)Zen_Mechanics Wrote: and I would suggest we turn the blame to liberty, to be specific, for declaring a war with gallia but are being dishonest about consequences