catparty wrote:As another example, consider Luthori. Everyone knows the strength and longevity of the Luthori monarchy. Part of what made the recent plotline regarding Luthori upheaval fun was that while the monarch was briefly overthrown, all of the involved parties did so in such a way that was respectful to the monarchist culture. One player overthrew the monarch, and soon afterwards supported restoring the monarch, because he respected that IC the monarchy was popular enough to have sway over even republican parties. Another party from Davostag wanted a share of the Luthori monarchy's titles, so he showed that he valued the monarchy even while opposing it. A third seems to have been trying to overthrow the monarchy for centuries, so by the time it happened that party had clearly shown its IC reasoning. Luthori was an example of how the most interesting gameplay respects what had come before it.
That may have been what it looked like from outside, but it wasn't what it looked like from inside, which was a prime example of nation-raiding. Jackmeister changed his tune because he realised he wouldn't get a supermajority in the next election, and because I martialed support inside and outside Luthori against the changes. The Davostag Invasion Brigade was brought in precisely to counteract the Commonwealth Party. They now refuse to leave unless they get their way. They're out to make a land-grab for Luthori and seem totally uninterested in actual RP. As for the People's Party, they likewise don't engage much in actual RP. In the main both of these parties vote assiduously - either to remove all of Luthori's military spending, or to withdraw us from various treaties, or to go to war with Kundrati
and have a civil war at the same time, but RP? Post? No. As I say, it doesn't look much like RP to me.
What's not nearly as fun is when parties appear in a country and RP orthogonally to how RP has always gone before. I call this the "Democratic Party/President/Senate/Federal Republic" Syndrome. RP isn't for everyone, but I think we should develop a consensus that players who do choose to RP should RP in accordance with a nation's RP history.
Which is pretty much exactly what the Luthori Commonwealth Party/Luthori Labour Party was doing: inactivating to preserve visibility, then reactivating immediately before elections. He was pulling the same trick in Beluzia as well with a different account. Frankly, at the time I considered it an ATR attack on Luthori (which given that a few months ago, the country was suddenly flooded with republican parties, didn't seem that unlikely, particularly given the Hulstria debacle), and I'm still not convinced it wasn't.
catparty wrote:Also, "Lord Protector of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith" isn't exactly a HoS title that goes against the culture of Luthori. Its definitely not a "President of the United States of Luthori" type of situation.
Only if you think Luthori is a purely British nation, and a British nation with no particular periodic leaning. It isn't. Our own cultural protocols define us as a mix of 19th Century Britain (where a "Lord Protector of the Commonwealth" would have been unthinkable), and the Holy Roman Empire of the 15th Century. The point is: it's an Anglo-Germanic mix, and Jack here decided to completely rip out the Germanic elements. Admittedly, my own change of the Diet to an Estates-General in this context was not a good move, but the point remains. If one thing has come out of this which is good, it is a determination not to reduce the Germanic element in future.