Speak for yourself, please. Regardless of what anyone believes, the choice for me of who to support for Ascension was extremely hard, and I was tempted to not come at all. Certainly that would have been the best option for me, politically and personally - it also would have felt cowardly, and like disappointing two people instead of one. But for various reasons and days of weighing pros and cons, I felt Ixion deserved the support more. That does not mean I wanted Choros to lose. I think in the last couple of weeks he's more than proved he also deserved to win, if only for all that he did to try and help Hallifax. I'm disappointed that my candidate lost, but not that Parhelion won.Rancoura said:My apologies, I misspoke -- this is not a nullification of our efforts, but it is a lessening of them. Part of the intention of supporting a side in Ascension is also to prevent the raising of an Ascendant on the other side, is it not? Please do correct me if I'm wrong, but that is the perspective I'm speaking from.
Regardless, I agree that there was likely no resolution to this that would keep everyone happy -- my issue is more with Parhelion's tone in the first quote I posted above.
That is entirely up to the player. Did people show up to support Choros or oppose Ixion? Was the goal "Not Ixion" or "Raise Choros"? If you went with the goal of not Ixion, then yes, you "lost". If your goal was raise Choros, mission success.Rancoura said:Part of the intention of supporting a side in Ascension is also to prevent the raising of an Ascendant on the other side, is it not?
@Parhelion -- considering this stands as a nullification of our efforts as well now, and particularly with your having recently posted the following:Parhelion said:I fully support this action. If you're on the side that helped me win, and this makes you want to retire or stop playing, you are no better than the other side that said the same thing, and you can consider our friendship in any capacity ended no matter how long we've known each other. End of story.
I would strongly suggest that you find a more tactful way of encouraging your supporters to accept this decision than proclaiming the moral high ground with insinuations of "my way or the highway" coupled with blatant dismissals of our feelings in one fell swoop.Parhelion said:
I'm fully aware that my team carried me. There's not a single person in the group that didn't help make sure this win happened. All I did was work my ass off to make sure they had something they could work with. What I wasn't going to do was go out of my way to make their work any harder than it had to be. I invested in myself, asked for help and advice, tweaked my reflexes, and tried to earn their support. I wasn't owed their support, and both Ixion and Ciaran deserved this more than I did.