Well, Laz, as I said I've been Bish from day one in the beta. What can I say? I really like a lot of the guys that are/stay Bish. I'm not going to single out a few when there are so many I enjoy joking and playing the game with.
The Bish have had numbers lately but there've been many times in the past 2 years that we spent a week or multiple weeks "in the bucket".
It was still fun being Bish then and flying with those same guys. Generally, the guys I hangout with laugh a lot and don't worry about the legendary Bish inability to cooperate to achieve anything.
When we were down, I don't remember endless pleadings, wailings and gnashing of teeth on the BBS about being in the bucket either. There were some to be sure, but nothing like what I've been seeing in here lately.
Maybe THAT's what I like about Bishland and the people that make up its population.
I doubt there is any country that can take as long to capture a field with 10 v 1 odds in their favor as the Bish.
(My personal belief is that we're all just a bunch of no-strat furballers. If we get our backs to the wall we can organize for maybe 2-4 captures, but as soon as we have a little room, it's back to furballin'. Just MO.)
We have very few "generals" and most missions that get put up rarely generate much interest. That's just life as a Bish. Can it be that people find this attractive?
Now, as I said before, perhaps there should be a little introspection. All of us realize there's no real fundamental difference in the software for any particular country. Flying for one is the same as flying for another in that respect.
So why do more people choose to fly Bish?
It COULD be because they want to fly where the numbers are presently. That's the easy way to blame all the problems on something you can't control.
Or, it COULD be because there's something about Knightland that isn't appealing to a lot of folks. This is the hard way, the unappealing way to look at the problem.
I'll bare my soul here a second (and get flamed for it, of course.) Long ago there was a player shift. Many of the LW squads went to Knights, as was certainly their perogative. This in and of itself really wasn't the problem. However, some of the more famous complainers in the game ended up in K-land because of this.
For me this had a two-fold effect. One, I stayed Bish because it's always fun to shoot down the complainers.
Two, I certainly didn't want to switch to K-land; for me, the continual complaining degrades the enjoyment I get from the game. Having it on CH1 and CH2 simultaneously would not be an improvement IMO.
Sure, things have changed but for me I guess that initial first impression remains.
As I mentioned before, maybe you folks need to see if you can make K-land more attractive to other players somehow.
Attempts to "force" a balance are going to be pretty hard to implement in a way that doesn't tick people off, IMO.
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