I tried to play an Imperial with them being in the gutter but being a solo player its hard. I had battle asking me all the time for help against outlander, but as soon as they got their breath and outlander could not longer raid...back to taking the codex and piling on a cabal with no one in it. The beat downs just took it out of me.

The other problem I had was I was really trying to play the Empire of old and how it is set up that Sects should not freely help one another. That there should be tension. Well that doesnt work when you have no one, or the few there are you REALLY need and cant really RP that.

Ah well, just my opinion that Empire no longer really works in the current environment with smaller playerbase. Kind of need larger numbers for how it was to be, or permas and that is lame.