May 13th 2011, 22:13:38
Originally posted by QM Diver:
Members of your alliance who clearly aren't netgaining (have zero stock, do not play weeks at a time, etc) have been aggressively grabbing netting alliances for large amount of acres all reset long.
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How would you know this? There are a few playing a wargain strat, mainly because they do not believe the server won't allow NBK to net in peace. If you think netters are not required to protect their countries via military, I'd say there's a flaw in that thinking.
We have a member who got hit for over $7 Billion in cash, alone, just yesterday.. It's inherently dangerous, to test the odds of running unprotected, but I haven't seen NBK complain about it on FFAT..
Nowhere did I say that netters should not protect there land, but there's a certain point in the reset where your 'teach them a lesson' excuse gets old. It is late in the reset, land goals really should have been met by now. People are in the middle of stocking, hell some are already starting to dump their stock.
I understand the importance of being prepped for war during a netting reset, I was a leader of a warring alliance in 1a for close to ten years and actually lost a war because of it. I have been spying/market spying NBK strings that like to make 'topfeeds' (I realize you don't recognize 'topfeeds' but I know you understand the term/what I am referring to) and some of your 'war prepped' countries can hardly be called that. If you need an example check out the 970ish 'phobia' string, he is one of your most aggressive topfeeders. He has no oil stockpile, no cash/bushels stocked, and no sdi. These are 3 pretty key ingredients to war prepping and he has none of them. This is not a country that is war/netgaining, this is someone grabbing to be an asshole.
No, you're not complaining about the hits you've received, but I really doubt anyone is grabbing you guys anywhere near as much as you have the people you are not pacted to. I bet yesterday was the first time you've had any significant losses from landgrabs. However you did question the honor of another alliance because of the way they treat people who run solo on an alliance based server, that more than opens you up to be called out on the way you treat other/netting alliances during a reset you openly requested people to respect your own netgaining wishes. Especially when you have members who clearly are playing turns maliciously.
