Because the discord user has already had days to plan based on the true WoG. The info that the thread received when it was time to CHOOSE was made equivalent, because that benefits the discord user, but the info in the thread when it was time to idly dream up ideas for the future was different.
Discord wasn't the cause of cabal in PoI, the fact that few players had disproportionate powers and were practically required to cooperate lest they sink the whole state was. Cabal was inevitable, in this circumstances, because it was the only way it could function. If there wasn't Discord, they would've made one.
Wouldn't really be the case here, as the plans and options are discussed during the moratorium, so all relevant WoG would be posted then, and not when it's time to vote.
I think for now all legions are all moving as one big group.
There's been plenty of that, apparently. Jokes about conquering india, a note by telamon that the silk road isn't much of a thing right now, some great points by godwinson about a wide variety of things we should never try to do, The nucleus of a plan about gold mines in spain, an idea that at the very least has not been shot down.
That's still only one day less of dissonance.
I want those gold mines in Dacia instead.
I'm not entirely sure what do you mean by that. It's the day after the update, so no one would have days to secretly make their own plan in the cabal with all the information or anything.
A lot of options remain across turns. For example, I wanted to meet with Marius this round because i think he's gonna keel over soon, but dropped that for now in favor of everyone's favorite crone because I otherwise quite liked publicola's plan. Next turn, i intend to argue for that again. This analogy works better, I admit, in situations where we know how many actions slots we will have, but next turn we will see how much free time a Marian campaign leaves us.
PoI's mistake was that the playerbase refused to follow my plans
I get you now, but I think that concern is misplaced. Discord questions and WoG answers are, due to chat room nature, usually very specific and focused on situation, and the more you move away from the current turn, the more unclear and subject to change the situation becomes. So, the WoG for more general questions is either not given (how would you know that?), or QM has time to consider it and posts answer both here and in the thread. Same with random tidbits, they usually relate to the situation at hand, not to something far away. So there isn't really any difference between planing in Discord or planning in thread for general planning.
That's certainly closer to our current path! And we DID get options to get personal favors from locals in exchange for various nonsense during our last occupation.
It requires no evil for this to happen, only the most minor laxness and lack of foresight. Take this example:
And yet this thread is filled with so much history WoG that it possesses the tag "A Cleverly Disguised Roman History Course", so clearly we need telamon to tell us some historical things.
"secret discorians" is just the latest in a bunch of flowery joke names. I've been doing it this whole time. I know that it's the same people now, the entire second half of the post you quoted is about how the thread will MAKE them different groups by giving them different goals over time, as little details far too unimportant for individual conveyance add up.
Why can't we extract that info in the thread instead, without risk of it getting lost on the way and dividing the community? It's not like telamon has shown himself to be afraid of posting side info in the thread before, he just posted an entire recounting of Rome's founding myth from a current perspective for no reason.
While you are correct that Discord likely won't create that big a dissonance between the two sites, saying that quests are about cooperation rather than competition is somewhat naive. In all quests, each voter has a different idea of what they want out of a quest. These goals become even more divergent in large and detailed quests like these. Quests are very much NOT cooperation. They are a competition of appealing to the natural biases that SV generally exhibits to garner votes in favor of your own vision, same as any other democracy.
Oh don't worry. I am not very committed to either of those sides at the moment. That's why I said "leaning." It's not really as much an issue with me at the moment as consolidating personal power among our legion and strengthening the Cult of Mars is.
Telamon is writing them because he is a huge nerd and it helps us immerse ourselves in Atellus' world.
While true, we are a bit at a disadvantage here. Unlike the Pentri we were helping, the Greeks are probably not tired of the war yet and just managed to push Marius of all people back.
Seems like that would work better with the other option related to learning about greek rivalries and such, rather trhan the one focused on the city we're going to be leaving soonish.
Next XP from the Battle of Aeclanum:
Here we have our first mistake! It should be Military (3,000/10,000), continuing on to 2nd study session:
(3,583/10,0000), next some gains from an Omake:
We only gain 400 instead of 500. Correct value at this point would have been: (4,083/10,000); on to the gains from the Battle of the Tabelline Pass:
(4,995/10,000), next gains from another Omake:
(5,395/10,000), next gains from the 3rd study session:
Small mistake, we only gained 1,000. It should now be (6,428/10,000); and finally gains from the Siege of Nola:
Another tiny mistake costing us 2 XP. In sum I find we should be at (7,928/10,000) instead of (6,793/10,000) so we are missing 1,135 Military XP.
... and we went to Aeclanum in Turn 3 and stayed at Bovanium from Turn 5 to arguably Turn 9 (we interacted with Sertorius at the end of that turn).
