OK, in a very different tone, I got that PM from someone who has obviously a few problems and probably black (at least I hope for him for that would give him, if not an excuse or a reason, at least a hint of explanation).
I will keep his/her log in name secret to prevent people with both a correct knowledge of language and history to hammer at him...
When I got this first I was wondering if there had not been a mistake made in the recipient's name then I got the picture. This was about this beta.
Then I thought I would not reply or reply something like "get lost" because I was getting angry.
Then quickly I realized it was not worth getting mad as this provocative PM was more fun and ridiculous than anything else. Obvious paranoia, basic anti-white racism, poor knowledge of history and writting skills that are less than clear except for an obvious focus (interest ?
) on rape.
But I thought it could be useful for clarifying at least one point and avoiding such issues in the future.
Here is the PM :
??? said:
I find your game very racist. Why aren't the british called white killers or rapist. How can you be a rebel in your own country. The rebels are the british because they went around the world commiting mass rape, mass genocide and mass murder. Black rebels my foot nail white britons come half way around the world rape your and kill your family and kick you off your land and somehow they are rebels. Yeah ok. I am sure in your opinion the jews were rebels towards and the native towards the french hitler. Your a disgusting racist.
Modern South Africa was then divided into globally 3 parts :
- British direct colonies mostly named Cape and Natal
- Boer States (Orange and Transvaal)
- Small African states under British leadership. These are the ones we are interested in here. These states were not independant but were kind of reservations with a semi-autonomous native leader.
In this scenario I decided to give them a chance by making them independant (as well as the Zulus who had been nevertheless already been incorporated into British Natal colony).
Why ? Because it would create some native African civ with its special looks, units and strategies. English or Boer have little interest in creating such troops while native African civs have little else to build. Besides although they were dependant (this can show game-wise by the way British can supply them with European weapons) it is definitely possible they use this mostly whites vs whites war that exhausted both civs to try and regain their freedom through a rebellion.
This rebellion tech allows the building of hidden nationality units as a rebellion is a popular movement (icnluding among natives of the British colonies) and not an official war. This allows the native civs to attack, weaken the white colonists troops without being directly threatened (as their cities could not resist a British column for instance).
A rebellion does not imply an moral value either good or bad but a political fact. You rebel against the current order and in these areas and at that time they were under British order. A rebellion is therefore an official term. Of course they can be called guerilla, freedom-fighters (the later usually if they succeed). I acknowledge the fact the term of rebellion has been wrongly used by some dictators who tried to condemn it morally but this is an over-use of the word.
Of course I could have simply discarded native civs saying they were non-existent and Austral Africa was only made of white civilizations... and from reading your post and for the historical "accuracy" it focus on maybe I should have put a "black female to rape" unit. But honestly these things did not come to my mind. Maybe I should apologize for it ?
Because I actually gave them existing civs and albeit trying to remain true to history I tried to open the game to "what ifs..." by giving these civs an opportunity to rebel = to get rid of the colonial yoke.
Of course you did not complain I was racist towards Muslims or Belgium people when I put their rebellions in the Great Armada scenario...
If I become racist your PM will have contributed to it !!
But look at the C3C maps of Africa. They are mostly ignored and I nevertheless made two with precise resources and stuff.
Either get a life or just enjoy playing this scenario where white men kill other white men.
Or just don't play anything related to black Africa as nothing historical will probably please you in any of them.
(no I am kidding, they are not slaves they are 
). 
