Holy balls! $999 per barrel. It hasn't been available for days. Someone notify the consumer protection bureau about the price gouging. This guy needs to be arrested =)

I'm not arguing against GDI or someone's right to nuke someone. As I mentioned, dont leave yourself vulnerable.
I'm just saying, if you suicide, you forfeit the right to delete

I was scanning the scores and Dapper Dan #34 got nuked like 30 times by some lowbie, who then deleted their country. I had that happen to me a couple of sets ago. I'm still a relative newb only having been back for about a month now after 20 year lay off. If you're near the top of the scores without GDI and/or without high SDI, you're sort of asking for it, which is fine. However, a person shouldn't be able to drop 30 nukes and then delete. Deleting your country early because you screwed up, no problem. Deleting after that sort of attack is lame and not in the spirit of the game. Such a person isn't playing to run the best country, get the highest score, or even to get into a war (which can be fun also). The whole point of these countries is to sell out at all costs to stockpile a massive amount of missiles and then ruin someone's game, and then deprive them the ability to retaliate.

Proposed rules tweak: You shouldn't be able to delete your country if, in the last 24 hours, you have performed one of the aggressive Spy Ops, Missile attacks, or special attacks. Basically the stuff blocked by GDI. If you do those attacks, you are open for retaliation. No deletion

I don't know if #24 was coordinating. I hit a guy 1 time and he went full on war with me. I smashed him and I was at the end of a kill run and I miss calculated by 10 turns. In the hour I was waiting, #24 swooped in and scooped up the kill. He deprived me of the satisfaction of killing my enemy, but I never sent a message to him or anything. I did a search on #24 and he had 5 kills (pretty impressive if they were clean kills, like the one he sniped from me). Never spoken a word ever to that guy (or gal). No idea who they are. He may or may not have done the same in other instances.

I've only done 3 runs this past month since retiring from the game 20 years ago. I was on the business end of what I suspected was Ratski multi-account attack. I didn't have anything solid so I didn't report it at the time, but it was suspicious and reading this thread solidifies this in my mind.

It's obviously a tough job for the moderators. It would be difficult to definitively prove anything and I feel for them. This leads me to the conclusion that there has to be some self policing by the community.

This is a heads up for the moderators. I am going to be trolling the news, looking for people who are being jerks (i.e. full on, multi-hit retaliation for 1 time attacks), and if its obvious, I'm going to join the fight against these coordinated attacks. There ain't going to be any "collusion" on my end on behalf of the aggrieved. I'm just going to do it when I see it. Don't be a jerk, don't coordinate, and there won't be any interventions from me.

Like Ratski recounts, there are circumstances. Ratski was hit multiple times. A single attack should not warrant an all out war. Its the guys who freak out who are bad for the server.

I would 100% jump in to an ongoing war pending circumstances. It is beyond frustrating when you hit someone one time and then they drop like 20 missiles on you or whatever the next day. Sometimes I will troll the news and if I see someone over react like that from a 1 time hit, I will get involved. Its my new thing, way more fun then netting off of bots.