Earlier in the set I attacked a guy once (that's 1 time) for land. The next day he ABs me 50 times. Okay, fine.

Yesterday I attacked a guy for land. I got a message from him that was incredibly pleasant. Very nice, conversational, asked a few questions about my strategy and ended with a thanks.

I'm really glad people like that second guy exist. No message or anything from the first guy. Sigh.

I don't think there's anything wrong with destroying a guy who triples you after your retal, which you have a right to.

That's not zero tolerance. Zero tolerance would be killing a guy (or using spy ops and other things to basically ruin their set) for attacking you once.

Basically I've come to the conclusion that everything is pretty messed up, at least in my opinion.

It probably mostly stems from the low amount of players on the server though, so I hope that when the increase (from Facebook?) comes, most of this is "fixed" so to speak.

But seriously, don't get so pissy when you get hit, I think. If someone randomly hits you three or four (or twenty) times, okay that sucks. But once or twice (especially spread out over a period of days) is nothing to completely lose your cool at, I'd say.

At this rate, eventually no one is going to attack ever, and then we have a single player game with a scoreboard (which I don't want to play, but admittedly I suppose some would)

Fair enough argument. The only problem is that it's very easy to grief because you've got nothing to lose / you can just restart next set. Other web games with longer (or infinite) set times have fewer people using up so much time just griefing. But I see your point.

Maybe next time I'll just completely wreck the guy. After all, I broke through his defenses once or twice, huh?

Losing buildings I suppose is a fair retal, although it seems a little weird to see 30-40 messages about it when they aren't gaining anything from it. Just a couple hits to deter further attacks (even though I wasn't going to attack again of course) would seem a better course of action.

Suiciding though just wastes everyone's time.

Viceroy I was saying that one of the major points of playing games (of all types and genres) is to compete with others. Multiplayer games especially are often fun because of the ability to affect other players. If everyone's just going to test a strategy that involves at most selling things to other players, there's no fun in the game.

It'd be like taking scissors away from rock paper scissors.

Seriously. Old Earth:2025 I'd attack people from around the middle of the set. One or two attacks, then never again. Just, you know, playing a multiplayer game.

Last set I made a mistake and attacked a guy again like 5 days later, I guess I forgot his name/number or whatever. He suicides into me.

This set I'm keeping a list of people I've attacked so I don't do it again, fair enough. I attack one guy, and he spends all of his turns destroying my buildings. That doesn't seem like a fair retal? Mostly because, what does *he* gain from doing that? I recovered in one day, but that's still one day of stuff I miss out on.

It seems like people aren't really interested in doing well in the *game* itself. Just pissing everyone else off.

I don't get this game anymore. It's no fun to be peaceful - no games are.

A combat calculator would be nice...

Is it still 3 turns for 12 hours and 6 turns for 18 hours? And I'm assuming not on the Express server.

The game isn't very specific, and I looked around and I can't find the details anywhere.