I agree with SG totally on all points.... but I have some other thoughts based on Marshal's message:
Originally posted by Marshal:
And I have no sympathy for LaF so we are equal on that.
LaF started this mess by letting their members do several landgrabs against same country inside 72 hrs (and normally after retals exceed 5 attacker is moved on kill-list but since RagenEly had other plans this set we didn't kill offender).
I was willing to sign pact as Gains can confirm but he said no.
Truth is that LaF started hit RagenEly and when RagenEly started do same to LaF we got FS'd.
p.s. I'm not that hard to find so wasn't ignoring on my end but no contacts since I msg'd to Gains that could he tell #455 to cease hitting on RagenEly.
ya, there's definitely blame to go to LAF here... LaF was hitting you guys and I expect we probably hit you first (although I haven't checked into that, and that is only the tip of the ice berg of the issue) but what I'm saying is that no matter how you slice it, ingame issues are what caused this war. Ingame issue kept building up, spilled somewhat into the public area with a few posts made last week and then we ended up coming to blows over it. No one in LaF is seething mad at Rage or anything, we just felt that the issue was going to come to blows eventually and we weren't getting anywhere diplomatically, so war happened.
Did you guys not see our FS coming or something? I imagine most people knew LaF was on alert, we weren't being super secretive about hiding it.
The bottom line that I think everyone should realize that this is just the boiling over of actual ingame issues, which is something we haven't seen in quite some time, so maybe no one's familiar with it. I've always like them, even when we're on the receiving end of them :p