>If there were no russians, there would be no one to hate except >Crafted D, Rogue, and Aether.

Is it completely irrelevant to point out that, independent of whether any cheating is going on or not, the Russians are never impolite to anyone else (except Beront) until and unless people get frustrated with them?

Whereas the first two of the former go out of their way to make everyone not in their cabal as utterly miserable as they can possibly manage and then it gets called 'legitimate RP'.

I get that if any one of the russian chars all played like Satebos instead of how they do now they'd pretty much fade into the background as he has, but let it never be said they turned into Kanye.

I'd also venture to say if you put Balrahd, Forsaken, Lightmage Java and Xanth on the same team in any combination of three and let them play like the Russians do now, regardless if you think there's provable cheating there or not, they'd do just as well or better, good or evil. And they'd be just as likely not to piss in anyone else's cheerios.

Somehow there's this impression that the entire cabal chuckles at you OOCly when you die to them. That's really not the case unless you go out of your way to raise hell for no reason like I have once or twice.