While I don't want to distract from the actual purpose of this thread, I do feel a need to respond to comments on the state of our military activity.

(05-08-2022, 09:48 AM)im_a_waffle1 Wrote: Lately I've been seeing a lot more week-long sieges and defender leaders scraping the barrel for more troops just to counter the large raider armies, where during beginning to mid-2021 a couple of normal-sized defender armies could stomp the average occupation easily.

This is a strange way of saying that more players are getting involved in military gameplay. If we want to complain that we need larger and larger defender armies — where are the complaints from raiders that they need larger and larger piles? 'Needing larger defender armies' and 'setting turnout records' are two sides of the same coin.

'Scraping the barrel' is also hardly how I'd describe our methods. I remember past Ministers of Defense and Generals reaching out me about helping out as a civilian since at least 2020, and possibly before then as well when I wasn't regularly active.

Most of all, at least on my part, I like to believe that South Pacificans form their opinions on issues such as our military alignment based on their principles and on our regional principles, not on whichever faction we feel is currently "winning" harder.