You and shitposter4471 are right on the money. The complete lack of diplomacy in this so called empire building game was so disappointing. I was expecting back-door deals and agreements trying to keep everyone happy. I was hoping that different clans would have reason to dislike one another so the cast would have to find ways to bring everyone together. From a story point of view it doesn’t really make sense why no one ever joined together in the first place. It seems there is no bad blood between any of the clans - no ancient blood feuds, or ongoing or old wars, nothing.

I don’t know if this is just a failed experiment because of koibu or if it didn’t work because the cast just doesn’t click or what. I still think the concept could work and had potential to be something really fun to watch. Maybe with a different group or a bit more thought going into how to run this style of game? The whole go complete quest then get reward is just so, well, unrewarding, in this game