Originally Posted by
StratOcastle
jmiedema
There is a risk/reward of being a small kingdom all age and storing up large amounts of honour by warring and beating ghetto's. You get a larger amount of easier wars compared to honour kingdoms that also grow to be top 15 in size. Just because your kingdom has chosen a safer sized environment to do your warring in doesn't mean you are just given an easy road to be high or top of the honour charts, and it should be expected that you will be randomed into by larger kingdoms who are going for honour charts.
^ the safer size environment?
You assume they chose to stay small. You don't know the inner workings of the kingdom in question. The go-to commentary is always that these kingdoms stay small to dodge you.
It hasn't occurred to you that the diplo environment can only be secured by as many farms the tops require to compete. Yes, the tops need acres. Without that threat you can pump. Many of these kingdoms have to forge their wars without diplomatic shielding.
Like I said, and apparently you don't want to listen, I think FS has many nice players. You should then respect that I hold you in regard.
My issue is with the rhetoric that these kingdoms lack the character to compete at the highest levels. I'm sure they'd like to but I didn't see a full roster. Ruthless has been recruiting and the player base simply can't support every kind of hard worker. Additionally, some may not want to play the diplo card and they are small because of that as well. you can't argue with opponent size 103% though.
I'm not here to change minds just rhetoric.