But yes, that's what I'm saying. That event opened up the door for even better things. I would strongly urge you to skip that event you dislike, and go on to the one after that in v0.6, would love to hear what you think.
I'm waiting for the proper release anyway, but even then I'd rather not. In addition to the impression we get of him from his first appearance and from the letter, I've picked up a few things from what others have said of the contest itself; apparently he's a hypocrite who doesn't even obey his own rules regarding elves, taking advantage of the fact that
he's the one who gets to decide if an elf is being mistreated or not. That makes it sound like he gave them the rights he did not because he has a conscience, but to try and appease those who
do. Not a great sign.
The idea of anything good coming of it seems kind of ridiculous to me; if people had opposed slavery by trying to show slavers the error of their ways in real life,
it would still be around. Even accepting that winning the contest
would make some kind of difference, you've indicated that the player can also
lose, in which case he just dismisses you as a crazy person. Given that, clearly winning the contest and changing his mind is
not required for the story going forwards
.
damn that event, I totally know what you mean. I could bring myself to finally do it on day ~160 or so (but I was also bored and wanted to see something new...), skiped through everything as good as I could and almost died when I saw a specific person there. After all I'm still alive and waiting for new content^^
When I finished with everything 0.5 had to offer, I picked another game to play. If I'm going to play a game with that sort of content, I'd rather be the one having fun than the one getting humiliated.
I am actually kind of surprised people don't like the cornwall event, nobody has spoken up about it since a week or so ago, haha.
I'm surprised so many people
do seem to like it; it's such a dreadful departure from the tone of the rest of the game. If being bullied by an asshole was my thing, there are a number of
other games I could play.