You'll realize pretty quick that this isn't the most historically accurate roleplay around :P

 I would personally like to see more people willingly putting themselves in bad, but realistic positions though. I feel a lot of people are just trying to climb the ladder to greatness, one-upping each other and generally just trying to become more powerful. And don't get me wrong; that's fine. It's only normal to want to make something great out of your nation. I'd be doing the same if I were currently playing (damn the wait!). But I do think that, every now and then, you should give yourself some setbacks for the sake of realism, and making an interesting story come out of all this. If you think an action should have some backlash, give yourself some damn backlash :P 

Assuming players are allowed to shoot themselves in the foot, that is. If they are, then do it once in a while. Don't just wait on Outcast to give you something to deal with. I feel that, as GM, Outcast probably lets a lot slide for the sake of giving players freedom and not seeming like a dick-tator GM that's constantly shooting people down. I know from what little experience I have GMing, that sometimes you have to let things slide (even when they don't make complete sense), otherwise you're constantly calling people out and that makes you come off like a real oppressive douche, and no one wants to play in an oppressive douche's roleplay.