Originally posted by Octavius
Institutional behaviors? And that's attributed to a chess piece... um, no. No chess piece or country has any attributes "stained" to itself after 55 tours.
Rotate all Bish to Rook, Rook to Knit, Knit to Bish. Any change besides a name?
Thanks for agreeing with me. You're thinking way too hard Zazen
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You could call the teams apples, pears, and grapes, but it wouldn't change the fact that each team will attract and retain likeminded individuals. I played AW for a LONG time, there were Az, Bz, and Cz. Curiously, the exact same thing happened across 10 different arenas. Each team on each server quickly identified themselves with a general methodology and approach to the game. It's just simple human nature and it happens fairly quickly.
You could change the names of the countries, give us all new handles prohibiting us from divulging our old ones, shake us all up and spit us out randomly. But, give us the freedom of choice of movemement from one country to another just like we enjoy now. I guarentee you, within 6 months, we'd be exactly where we are now, and if you suddenly gave us our original handles back you would find 95% of us gravitated back to the same group of people.
Zazen