Proposal: ID changes for 4.87

[TheJarl]

On behalf of the VWA, which presently represents (to my knowledge) the largest unofficial contingent of Bundschuh players, I would like to bring up the portion of the Bundschuh ID that states:

- Cannot ally with any lawfuls except with Rheinland lawfuls against Liberty lawfuls.

And ask it to be changed, to:

- Cannot ally with any lawfuls except with Liberty lawfuls against Rheinland lawfuls.

I highly disagree with this proposal.

The Bundschuh are trying to look like the good guys to Rheinlanders to gain their support. What would the people think if the Bundschuh would be actively helping Libertonians to crush Rheinland borders...
On the other hand its something different that after the Libertonians are gone from Rheinland, the Bundschuh may of course do the cleanup after Rheinland wont be in direct danger of foreign military forces.

The meaning of Bundschuh and Libertonian cooperation is in general all right, because its not really public and especially not in a fighting way.

But anyway, you dont even need to ally with anyone, you simply shoot both...

I expected this response. I realize that the current Bundschuh playerbase has several different opinions on the matter. However, it does seem reasonable to me as it is actually official lore. Admitted it was controversial and I think I opposed it back then myself. Still it wasn't changed as far as I know and in the VWA it was simply decided that we could try and actually make use of it by trying to side with Liberty. However lore and ID currently don't match. I realize why, but at the very least I think the Bundies should have the option to go both ways since there is no official faction to make a decision on the official course of the faction.

As for the reasoning behind siding with them. The Rheinland media won't portray us as heroes anyway, after many generations of propaganda it just won't work so easily anymore. Liberty can therefore be seen either as genuinely having good intentions (whether the players see it that way doesn't matter, our chars might) or simply as a useful lil' thing. If Liberty wins they could very well decide to give power to the Bundschuh if they consider us as an ally. For them it would mean supporting a new more friendly government instead of grabbing power themselves which would cause a lot of unrest. For us, it would be a way to fight the government.

So I think it should either leave the decision to the player or state that we can side with Liberty.

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