Sep 11th 2014, 5:36:45
1. SOF ran attrition wars and that was my main complaint about Ivan. It continued on with some of SOFs current leadership. I see that SOL and MD have moved towards exercising similar tactics. I am not trying to put down SOL and MD for doing so but simply pointing out the degeneration of the game. In addition, I do not feel that attrition style wars began with SOF but that they have predominated in the shrinking server we play in.
2. I don't flame Colonel Chaos. I rightfully flame Makinso for treating me underhandedly and you as well. Further, in general, the only SOL leadership I troll/flame is you. No one accuses me of flaming MD leadership as they tend to be normal stable individuals. I think a case could be made that I have treated Tellarion unfairly and not read his posts through before commenting multiple times. Tella: I recognize that I have made some baseless comments on your posts.
3. There were block wars and SOL/MD/LCN block pacted for a long time. I don't really see any point in continuing #3 as both sides targeted each other. You could point out legitimately that targeting was likely one way for a long time but there has certainly been the reverse in recent sets. As it is obvious to everyone, what is the point of saying SOF targeted those alliances? Those alliances have now targeted SOF while having the advantage. The argument is ridiculous because it is unending. Clearly, when either side has an advantage, they are leveraging it.
4. You treated me with severe disrespect. You shared logs of us talking in private. You attacked my character and belittled my position within my alliance. Why would I talk to you in private? Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. I don't want to talk to you because it is always a terrible experience.. Since I come here in the attempt to have fun, there is no reason to subject myself to the misery of discussions with you.
5. I cannot stress enough that your constant misinterpretations of everything I say and one sided take on everything leads me to display animosity towards you. You are certainly right that I could ignore you, but why should I? You generally stink up the board with a bunch of trash.
1) Of all of the wars since you came back to SoF, how many times did SoF get hit to begin war? 1 that is all. 1. The SoL/SoF 1v1. Every other war that SoF has been a part of since you have been back in leadership has been started by SoF. Don't tell me that SoL/MD are pushing attrition wars. Perhaps if you don't declare war on day 10, you wouldn't be in them. Just a thought.
SoL has tried to avoid attrition wars, that is why last reset we arranged a week 6 war with MD, and why we are currently discussion a potential late reset war with RAGE sometime down the line, when you allow these stupid grudge/power grab wars to end.
2) I guess we just have to agree to disagree.
3) As long as I have been in leadership in SoL there has been 1 reset that there was a block back. Only one. There have been situations where we have made it clear that if you guys were going to isolate our ally we were not going to pact you, so we were waiting for them to get a pact before we signed. That lead us to the war over the holidays. I have no regrets about standing up for our large allies and our small allies in that regard but it is far from block pacting and nothing close to what SoF/RD were doing before RD got the boot.
4) Then don't complain about us not trying to fix this issue if you, yourself are unwilling to turn the page and resolve it. I have tried to put down the sword. Sharing the logs was fluffty, I get that. I shouldn't have done it. I learned from it and moved on. As for attacking your character, all along I am pretty sure I have defended your character. I was sympathetic with the position you were put in because it was clear to everybody what was going to come of it regardless of who was in that position. Xyle was responsible for that, not you.
5) It is pretty strange that, for the most part, you and symac are the only 2 that have that issue with me. The constant misinterpretations. Perhaps it is in your writing style, I don't know. But I don't really have that with other people in this game. Do I have a 1 sided take on everything? Not everything, but yea, some things. That is part of politics. You do that too. Does that mean I am incapable of doing so? No. But the only people that even talk to me in leadership on your side of the spectrum are probably not the ones you want talking to me if you are worried about interpretations. But, alas...